Cryptic crossword clue
Unsophisticated friend keeps wanderin’ about on island 10

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word PROVINCIAL

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What does PROVINCIAL mean?

PROVINCIAL noun
  1. A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
  2. 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.
  3. A country bumpkin.
PROVINCIAL adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to a province.
  2. Constituting a province.
  3. Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
  4. Not cosmopolitan; backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude
  5. Narrow; illiberal.
  6. Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.
  7. Limited in outlook; narrow.

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