PROVENCAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Provencal mean? 

• PROVENCAL (noun)
  The noun PROVENCAL has 1 sense:

1. the medieval dialects of Langue d'oc (southern France)

  Familiarity information: PROVENCAL used as a noun is very rare.

• PROVENCAL (adjective)
  The adjective PROVENCAL has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to Provence or its people or their culture

  Familiarity information: PROVENCAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROVENCAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The medieval dialects of Langue d'oc (southern France)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Occitan; Provencal

Hypernyms ("Provencal" is a kind of...):

Langue d'oc; Langue d'oc French (medieval provincial dialects of French formerly spoken in the south of France)

• PROVENCAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to Provence or its people or their culture

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Provence (a former province of southeastern France; now administered with Cote d'Azur)

 Context examples 

Frenchmen and Englishmen, Gascon and Provencal, Brabanter, Tardvenu, Scorcher, Flayer, and Free Companion, wandered and struggled over the whole of this accursed district.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)