provincialism

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The quality of being provincial; having provincial tastes, mentality, manners. countable,uncountable
    — The blacksmith's provincialism showed in his speech and manner
  2. A word or locution characteristic of a region or district. countable,uncountable
    — 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.
  3. Synonym of regionalism: belief in the superiority of one's regional government; the belief that most or nearly all political power should be decentralized to provincial governments. countable,uncountable

词形变化

provincialisms plural

词汇关系

近义词
regionalism

词源

From French provincialisme, equivalent to provincial + -ism.
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