What's the difference between cosmopolitan and provincial?

Cosmopolitan


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Cosmopolite
  • (a.) Alt. of Cosmopolite

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Possible participation of the in vitro synthesized polypeptides in providing functions of cosmopolitanism and mobilization is being considered.
  • (2) Photograph: Tathiana Yumi Kurita The look on the street is as diverse as the city itself, but on the whole it’s cosmopolitan and smart, with some lightness and freshness to it – it is a tropical country we live in, after all.
  • (3) It’s a cheap shot, but for Latham, politics has always been about his western Sydney roots and his fury with leftists “enjoying the luxury of high incomes and cosmopolitan interests” while dismissing suburban Australians as sexist, racist and homophobic.
  • (4) The law will affect a wide variety of publications, including the country’s leading business daily, Vedomosti, the Russian versions of glossy magazines such as Esquire, GQ and Cosmopolitan, and television channels such as Disney and Eurosport.
  • (5) Urban nurses express negative attitudes toward incorporating indigenous practitioners into the cosmopolitan care setting.
  • (6) Of greater importance are the cosmopolitan infectious diseases such as typhoid fever, paratyphoid, salmonella enteritis, poliomyelitis, viral hepatitides which are transmitted orally and altogether are imported in no small numbers.
  • (7) Yet there is a great sense of unity among a cosmopolitan squad.
  • (8) "I think that turning to Europe is an attempt to escape a difficult identity in favour of a more simple one … This idea will always fail, because a German who goes to France, England, the United States and presents him or herself as simply a European, this is not what he is, he is not just a European, he's a German and those who travel learn that the world is not as cosmopolitan and international as we'd like it to be."
  • (9) In rapidly-changing and cosmopolitan Singapore, ergonomic principles are vital to all facets of manufacturing processes and the transportation and distribution of goods, but ergonomic practice can be complicated by several factors as indicated by such examples.
  • (10) They are mainly represented by latrines, where Anjouan ethnic group is predominent; by cesspools in localities inhabited by Sakalava (a Malagasian ethnic group) and by other latrines and cesspools in mahoraises (inhabitants of Mayotte) and cosmopolitan localities.
  • (11) It might sound strange but when I was very young I read these women magazines like Cosmopolitan and they were pretty feminist.
  • (12) Q has upped his gadget game Facebook Twitter Pinterest The brooding and sombre Skyfall scored a few points for post-modern playfulness via its introductory scene for the new Q, in which Ben Whishaw might as well have offered Bond a couple of Netflix vouchers and a year’s subscription to Cosmopolitan for all the wow factor his proffered “gadgets” achieved.
  • (13) The "capital" of the ancient Irish western province of Connaught is also something of a cosmopolitan spot, with a fifth of its population falling into the non-Galwegian category.
  • (14) Fascioliasis has a cosmopolitan distribution and is prevalent in sheep-raising countries.
  • (15) A cosmopolitan coach got a culture shock when Everton adopted an old-school British approach by introducing Koné alongside Romelu Lukaku to form a towering attacking duo as Martínez deployed a tactic Fellaini might have enjoyed.
  • (16) The intricate cosmopolitan weave of the city was pulled apart.
  • (17) Company launched in 1978, aiming at a younger demographic than Hearst sister title Cosmopolitan.
  • (18) People take naked photos of themselves for all sorts of reasons – a 2014 survey by Cosmopolitan found that 89% of millennial women have taken naked photos of themselves (and only 14% regretted it).
  • (19) Not all species of dermatophytes are cosmopolitan in their distribution throughout the world.
  • (20) Instead, what we get is Cosmopolitan's recent Condom Kama Sutra, which attempts to "make condoms sexy" by suggesting a series of "moves" a woman could do, one of which involves applying one with your tits.

Provincial


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.
  • (a.) Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.
  • (n.) A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
  • (n.) A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) O'Connell first spotted 14-year-old David Rudisha in 2004, running the 200m sprint at a provincial schools race.
  • (2) His senior role in the Popalzai tribe and his chairmanship since 2005 of Kandahar provincial council bolstered his reputation as an Asian version of a mafia don.
  • (3) Canadian cancer care has evolved under systems of provincial and federal fiscal control and aims to optimize the management of patients within each province.
  • (4) Parents appear at provincial court in Málaga, part of the process to transfer them to the Spanish capital, Madrid, for extradition hearing on Monday.
  • (5) An evaluated community action project carried out in New Zealand provincial cities used a quasi-experimental design which compared cities exposed to a mass media campaign, with and without community development, against reference cities.
  • (6) On 8 January, the ANC held its centenary celebrations in a large sports stadium in the provincial town of Bloemfontein.
  • (7) The objectives of this study were to document the official oral fluid therapy (OFT) policies of all the ministries of health in South Africa and of the four provincial authorities, to determine what methods of OFT are used in hospitals providing paediatric care, to determine the OFT methods recommended by hospital staff for use at home, to establish the level of support for the idea of one national policy for OFT and to determine what senior academic paediatricians think about these issues.
  • (8) All these cases' records were linked with provincial birth records to allow determination of maternal age at birth.
  • (9) The data indicate that zearalenone is an important mycotoxin in the provincial corn crops and that its incidence fluctuates from year to year.
  • (10) In the western city of Mbandaka, the provincial governor chased opposition witnesses out of his polling station and then spent almost an hour inside before leaving.
  • (11) The medical directors of the ten Ontario provincial psychiatric hospitals have therefore developed a guide and schema to operationalize the MHA definitions, a novel feature of which is the examination of competence in such a way as to elicit and capture the patient's own responses upon which an objective determination is made.
  • (12) It is suggested that provincial family planning committiees be established in Papua New Guinea to plan, establish, and coordinate local family planning programs.
  • (13) I think you get that in any provincial working-class town.
  • (14) A machine gun-wielding provincial governor took part in tackling a team of Taliban suicide bombers on Sunday when insurgents launched another brazen attack on a government facility in Afghanistan .
  • (15) Shiloh was born last May in Namibia, an addition to the family's two other adopted children: Zahara, two, from Ethiopia, and Maddox, five, adopted from Cambodia in 2002 after being brought from the provincial town of Battambang by an adoption agent who was later jailed in the US.
  • (16) Questionnaires were sent to 1,000 individuals with diabetes, who were randomly selected from the provincial health records office.
  • (17) Ahmed Wali Karzai was the head of the provincial council in Kandahar, Afghanistan's second biggest city, and had been the target of previous assassination attempts.
  • (18) This week the British fashion industry finally shed its image of cautious provincialism laced with endearing eccentricity and earned the applause of those members of the international fashion community in London for the show of the top ready-to-wear designers and the major fashion exhibitions at Olympia and the Kensington Exhibition Centre.
  • (19) There is a certain provincialism – this is a state where people really do still expect the candidates to show up.” Most agree this favours the incumbent.
  • (20) Then in May, the upstart New Democratic Party won a stunning victory in Alberta’s provincial elections , ending 44 years of Conservative rule.