Hypertext Webster Gateway: "provincialism"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Provincialism \Pro*vin"cial*ism\, 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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
provincialism
n 1: a lack of sophistication
2: a partiality for some particular place [syn: {sectionalism},
{localism}]
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