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Webster 1913 Edition
Provincialism
Pro-vin′cial-ism
,Noun.
[Cf. F.
provincialisme
.] A word, or a manner of speaking, peculiar to a province or a district remote from the mother country or from the metropolis; a provincial characteristic; hence, narrowness; illiberality.
M. Arnold.
Webster 1828 Edition
Provincialism
PROVIN'CIALISM
,Noun.
Definition 2024
provincialism
provincialism
English
Noun
provincialism (plural provincialisms)
- The quality of being provincial; having provincial tastes, mentality, manners.
- The blacksmith's provincialism showed in his speech and manner
- (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.
- 1875, Andrew Dousa Hepburn, Manual of English Rhetoric, New York: American Book Company, p 79:
Synonyms
- (linguistics): regionalism
Translations
quality of being provincial
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linguistics: word or locution characteristic of a region or district
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