provincialism : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: provincialism	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for provincialism
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
provincialism n a lack of sophistication a partiality for some particular place Synonym(s): sectionalism, provincialism, localism
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Provincialism \Provin"cialism\, 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.