provincialism

provincialism

English

Etymology

From 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) (gavaṙamtutʿyun) Finnish: provinsialismi, maalaismaisuus (fi), maalaisuus (fi) French: provincialisme (fr) m German: Provinzialismus m Italian: provincialismo (it)

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 translations at regionalism

Finnish: murresana (word), murteellinen ilmaus (locution); provinsialismi German: Provinzialismus m

Polish: prowincjonalizm m Romanian: provincialism (ro) n