regionalism en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
Etymology tree English regional Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English regionalism From regional + -ism.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) Affection, often excessive, for one's own region and to everything related to it.
Whereas organizations such as the WIFA and CU confirmed regional West Indian identifications and represented the connections between transnational West Indian organizations and black diaspora politics, the JPL, as a transnational Jamaican organization, demonstrates that the regionalism that took root among many West Indian expatriates in these years did not negate all expatriates' islandist perspectives and allegiances.
2018, Eric D. Duke, Building a Nation: Caribbean Federation in the Black Diaspora:
- (countable, uncountable) The belief that most or nearly all political power should be decentralized to regional governments.
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(countable) A word or phrase originating in, characteristic of, or limited to a region.
... the formal normative variety of the language as it is used today in formal writing by educated native speakers. As a result, we have eschewed dialectisms and regionalisms. The English variety employed in the book is formal British English, ...
2013, Ronak Husni, Daniel L. Newman, A to Z of Arabic - English - Arabic Translation, Saqi, →ISBN:
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(countable, uncountable) Regional character, local color.
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.
1986 April 19, Michael Bronski, “Two Views on Desert Hearts: Sexy? or simply Slow?”, in Gay Community News, page 9:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| regionalisms | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Hyponyms
Americanism · Canadianism · Briticism · Australianism · Britishism
Relateds
Synonyms
provincialism (political) · provincialism · statism (political) · federalism (political)
Translations (36)
gl rexionalismo (affection) · pt regionalismo (linguistic characteristic — see also provincialism) · ro regionalism (affection) · ru го́вор (linguistic characteristic — see also provincialism) · ca regionalisme (political tendency) · sq krahinorizëm (linguistic characteristic — see also provincialism) · vi chủ nghĩa khu vực (political tendency) · es regionalismo (affection) · ru ме́стничество (affection) · vi từ ngữ địa phương (linguistic characteristic — see also provincialism) · id regionalisme (affection) · mr प्रादेशिकता (affection) · gl rexionalismo (political tendency) · id regionalisme (political tendency) · de Regionalismus (linguistic characteristic — see also provincialism) · ms regionalisme (political tendency) · ro regionalism (political tendency) · ka რეგიონალიზმი (political tendency) · gl rexionalismo (linguistic characteristic — see also provincialism) · pl regionalizm (political tendency) · ml പ്രാദേശികവാദം (affection) · cs regionalismus (linguistic characteristic — see also provincialism) · ru райони́рование (political tendency) · es regionalismo (political tendency) · fi nurkkakuntaisuus (affection) · ro regionalism (linguistic characteristic — see also provincialism) · fi regionalismi (affection) · cs oblastní slovo (linguistic characteristic — see also provincialism) · ca regionalisme (affection) · pl regionalizm (linguistic characteristic — see also provincialism) · ar الجِهَوِيَّة (political tendency) · ms faham keserantauan (political tendency) · ru провинциали́зм (linguistic characteristic — see also provincialism) · de Regionalismus (political tendency) · es regionalismo (linguistic characteristic — see also provincialism) · fr régionalisme (linguistic characteristic — see also provincialism)