provincialism

English - Turkish

Definition of provincialism in English Turkish dictionary: taşralılık; {i} taşraya özgü deyiş; {i} taşraya özgü âdet veya deyiş özelliği; {i} taşra geleneği; {i} taşralı olma
provincialism, provinciality: taşra, taşra

English - English

Definition of provincialism in English English dictionary: The quality of being provincial; having provincial tastes, mentality, manners
The blacksmith's provincialism showed in his speech and manner.; 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.; {n} a peculiarity of speech in a province or district of country; Word, locution characteristic of a zone, of a region; disapproval Provincialism is the holding of old-fashioned attitudes and opinions, which some people think is typical of people in areas away from the capital city of a country. the stifling bourgeois provincialism of Buxton. provincial attitudes; 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; a lack of sophistication; To be provincial; to have provincial tastes, mentality, manners. "This piece of prose is full of provincialisms"; a partiality for some particular place; {i} unsophistication, simplicity; rusticness, ruralness, small-town quality; narrow-mindedness, parochialism