English

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

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Related terms

• regionalist