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provincialism |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Provincialism \Pro*vin"cial*ism\, n. [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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: provincialism n 1: a lack of sophistication 2: a partiality for some particular place [syn: {sectionalism}, {localism}]
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