"provincialism" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: provincialisms [plural]
Etymology: From French provincialisme. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|fr|provincialisme}} French provincialisme Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} provincialism (countable and uncountable, plural provincialisms)
  1. The quality of being provincial; having provincial tastes, mentality, manners. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (quality of being provincial): գավառամտություն (gavaṙamtutʿyun) (Armenian), провинциалност (provincialnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), provinsialismi (Finnish), maalaismaisuus (Finnish), maalaisuus (Finnish), provincialisme [masculine] (French), Provinzialismus [masculine] (German), provincialismo (Italian), faham kedaerahan (Malay), provinsialisme (Malay), prowincjonalizm [masculine] (Polish), provincianismo (Portuguese), provincialismo (Portuguese), provincialism [neuter] (Romanian), провинциа́льность (provinciálʹnostʹ) (Russian), lalagiwanin (Tagalog), provinim (Volapük), plovinim [obsolete] (Volapük)
    Sense id: en-provincialism-en-noun-ILy0kNVw Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 26 39 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 49 32 19 Disambiguation of 'quality of being provincial': 90 6 4
  2. (linguistics) A word or locution characteristic of a region or district. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Linguistics Translations (linguistics: word or locution characteristic of a region or district — see also regionalism): murresana (english: word) (Finnish), murteellinen ilmaus (locution) (Finnish), provinsialismi (Finnish), Provinzialismus [masculine] (German), Regionalismus [masculine] (German), prowincjonalizm [masculine] (Polish), provincialism [neuter] (Romanian)
    Sense id: en-provincialism-en-noun-umb7Rqmt Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 26 39 Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences Disambiguation of 'linguistics: word or locution characteristic of a region or district — see also regionalism': 8 84 8
  3. (politics) 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. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Politics Synonyms: regionalism [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-provincialism-en-noun-mU5pE7zJ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 26 39 Topics: government, politics
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: regionalism [linguistics, human-sciences, sciences]

Inflected forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.