provincialism

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French provincialisme

Noun

provincialism (countable and uncountable, plural provincialisms)

1. The quality of being provincial; having provincial tastes, mentality, manners.

   The blacksmith's provincialism showed in his speech and manner

2. (linguistics) A word or locution characteristic of a region or district.
   • 1875, Andrew Dousa Hepburn, Manual of English Rhetoric, New York: American Book Company, p 79:

     Prose is allowed less liberty in this respect; but no one nowadays would maintain that the adoption of a provincialism into the literary dialect is absolutely prohibited.

Synonyms

• (linguistics): regionalism

Translations

quality of being provincial

• Armenian: գավառամտություն (hy) (gavaṙamtutʻyun)
• Finnish: provinsialismi, maalaismaisuus (fi), maalaisuus (fi)
• French: provincialisme (fr) m
• German: Provinzialismus m
• Italian: provincialismo (it)
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• Malay: faham kedaerahan, provinsialisme
• Romanian: provincialism (ro) n
• Russian: провинциа́льность (ru) (provinciálʹnostʹ)
• Tagalog: lalagiwanin
• Volapük: provinim (vo), (obsolete) plovinim

linguistics: word or locution characteristic of a region or district — see also regionalism

• Finnish: murresana (word), murteellinen ilmaus (locution); provinsialismi
• German: Provinzialismus m
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• Polish: prowincjonalizm m
• Romanian: provincialism (ro) n