regionalism

English

Etymology

regional +‎ -ism

Noun

regionalism (countable and uncountable; plural regionalisms)

1. Affection, often excessive, to one's own region and to everything related to it.
2. Political tendency to concede forms of politico-administrative autonomy to regions.
3. (countable, linguistics) A word or phrase originating in, characteristic of, or limited to a region.

Synonyms

• (linguistics): provincialism

Hyponyms

• (linguistics): Americanism
• (linguistics): Briticism, Britishism
• (linguistics): Canadianism

Translations

affection

• Russian: ме́стничество (ru) (méstničestvo)

political tendency

• Russian: райони́рование (ru) (rajonírovanie)

linguistic characteristic

• French: régionalisme (fr)
• German: Regionalismus (de)

• Russian: провинциали́зм (ru) (provintsialízm)

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Translations to be checked

• Italian: regionalismo (it)

Related terms

• regionalist