regionalism
English
Noun
regionalism (countable and uncountable, plural regionalisms)
- Affection, often excessive, for one's own region and to everything related to it.
- (politics) The belief that most or nearly all political power should be decentralized to regional governments.
- (countable, linguistics) A word or phrase originating in, characteristic of, or limited to a region.
- Regional character, local color.
- 1986 April 19, Michael Bronski, “Two Views on Desert Hearts: Sexy? or simply Slow?”, in Gay Community News, page 9:
- Director Deitch has filled the sountrack with country music classics […] and this adds to the regionalism of the film as well as to the feeling which buoys the movie up from simplistic formula to romantic reverie.
Synonyms
- (linguistics): provincialism
- (political): federalism, provincialism, statism
Hyponyms
- (linguistics; English regionalism): Americanism, Australianism, Briticism, Britishism, Canadianism
Related terms
Translations
affection
|
political tendency
|
linguistic characteristic — see also provincialism
|
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French régionalisme. By surface analysis, regional + -ism.
Declension
Declension of regionalism
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) regionalism | regionalismul | (niște) regionalisme | regionalismele |
| genitive/dative | (unui) regionalism | regionalismului | (unor) regionalisme | regionalismelor |
| vocative | regionalismule | regionalismelor | ||
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.