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The quality of being provincial; having provincial tastes, mentality, manners. / (linguistics) A word or locution characteristic of a region or district.

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provincialism

Noun

countable uncountable

Japanese Meaning

地方的な性質、特に狭い見識や習慣を有する状態 / 方言、地域に特有の語彙や表現

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His provincialism became obvious when he dismissed any suggestions from outside his county.

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彼が郡外からの提案をすべて退けたとき、彼の地方主義が明らかになった。

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Sense（1）

The quality of being provincial; having provincial tastes, mentality, manners.

The blacksmith's provincialism showed in his speech and manner

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Sense（2）

(linguistics) A word or locution characteristic of a region or district.

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.

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(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.

provincialisms

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