Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A regional word, phrase, pronunciation, or usage.
- noun The condition of being provincial; lack of sophistication or perspective.
- noun The act or an instance of placing the interests of one's province before one's nation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That which characterizes a province or a provincial person; a certain narrowness or localism of thought or interest, or rudeness of manners, characteristic of the inhabitants of a province as distinguished from the metropolis, or of the smaller cities and towns as distinguished from the larger; lack of polish or enlightenment.
- noun Specifically, a word or manner of speaking peculiar to a province; a local or dialectal term or expression.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality of being
provincial ; having provincial tastes, mentality, manners. - noun linguistics A word or
locution characteristic of a region or district.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a lack of sophistication
- noun a partiality for some particular place
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Examples
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This kind of provincialism is very embarrassing for a space ranger like myself.
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Halford Mackinder, the turn-of-the-20th-century father of modern geography, stated that provincialism is very useful, since it prevents the tyranny of the wider, geographical majority.
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What kind of an insult to real provincialism is that?
Matthew Yglesias » GOP Senate Candidates Takes on Scourge of Imitation People 2010
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Halford Mackinder, the turn-of-the-20th-century father of modern geography, stated that provincialism is very useful, since it prevents the tyranny of the wider, geographical majority.
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But one major problem I see with a lack of provincialism is the same problem we see right now, where all or most of the goods are produced where it is cheapest to do so.
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Being accused provincialism is a bit hilarious for me, really.
Matthew Yglesias » Culture and Size and Scope of Government 2010
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Without love of community, whether defined as provincialism or community spirit, who would serve as a cop, social worker, soup kitchen employee, teacher, advisor, counsellor?
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Without love of community, whether defined as provincialism or community spirit, who would serve as a cop, social worker, soup kitchen employee, teacher, advisor, counsellor?
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His provincialism is the measure of his fear of bogies or the defect of his imagination.
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Mr. Ngubani's racism and provincialism is matched only by the hypocrisy of the Unity Movement crowd.
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