provincialism

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pro=vin=cial=ism

CIDE DICTIONARY

provincialism, 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.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

provincialism, n.
1 provincial manners, fashion, mode of thought, etc., esp. regarded as restricting or narrow.
2 a word or phrase peculiar to a provincial region.
3 concern for one's local area rather than one's country.

Derivative

provincialist n.

THESAURUS

provincialism

Acadian, Anglo-Indian, Brooklynese, Cajun, Canadian French, Cockney, French Canadian, Gullah, Midland, Midland dialect, New England dialect, Pennsylvania Dutch, Yankee, Yorkshire, agrarianism, authoritarianism, benightedness, bigotry, blind side, blind spot, blinders, boorishness, bucolicism, bundle of isoglosses, churlishness, class dialect, closed mind, cramped ideas, dialect, dialect atlas, dialect dictionary, fanaticism, hideboundness, idiom, illiberality, inexperience, ingenuousness, innocence, insularism, insularity, inurbanity, isogloss, linguistic atlas, linguistic community, linguistic island, little-mindedness, littleness, local dialect, localism, mean mind, meanness, naivety, narrow sympathies, narrow views, narrow-mindedness, narrowness, nearsightedness, odium theologicum, parochialism, pastorality, patois, pettiness, petty mind, provinciality, purblindness, regional accent, regionalism, ruralism, rusticity, shortsightedness, shut mind, simplicity, smallness, speech community, straitlacedness, stuffiness, subdialect, uncatholicity, uncultivation, unrefinement, unsophisticatedness, unspoiledness, yokelism

ROGET THESAURUS

provincialism

Neologism

N neology, neologism, newfangled expression, nonce expression, back-formation, caconym, barbarism, archaism, black letter, monkish Latin, corruption, missaying, malapropism, antiphrasis, pun, paranomasia, play upon words, word play, double- entendre, palindrome, paragram, anagram, clinch, abuse of language, abuse of terms, dialect, brogue, idiom, accent, patois, provincialism, regionalism, localism, broken English, lingua franca, Anglicism, Briticism, Gallicism, Scotticism, Hibernicism, Americanism, Gypsy lingo, Romany, pidgin, pidgin English, pigeon English, Volapuk, Chinook, Esperanto, Hindustani, kitchen Kaffir, dog Latin, macaronics, gibberish, confusion of tongues, Babel, babu English, chi-chi, figure of speech, byword, colloquialism, informal speech, informal language, substandard language, vernacular, vulgar language, obscene language, obscenity, vulgarity, jargon, technical terms, technicality, lingo, slang, cant, argot, St. Gile's Greek, thieves' Latin, peddler's French, flash tongue, Billingsgate, Wall Street slang, pseudology, pseudonym, Mr, So-and-so, wha d'ye call 'em, whatchacallim, what's his name, thingummy, thingumbob, je ne sais quoi, neologist, coiner of words, neologic, neological, archaic, obsolete, colloquial, Anglice.