I try to avoid this regionalism when speaking to an international audience.
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Regionalism
Synonyms for "regionalism" (11 found)
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Closest matches (3)
Noun(1 words)
Strong matches (3)
Noun(1 words)
Related words (5)
Noun(1 words)
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35 translations across 18 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- krahinorizëm noun (linguistic characteristic — see also provincialism)
Arabic
1 entries- الجِهَوِيَّة noun (political tendency)
Catalan
2 entries- regionalisme noun (affection)
- regionalisme noun (political tendency)
Czech
2 entries- oblastní slovo noun (linguistic characteristic — see also provincialism)
- regionalismus noun (linguistic characteristic — see also provincialism)
Finnish
2 entries- nurkkakuntaisuus noun (affection)
- regionalismi noun (affection)
French
1 entries- régionalisme noun (linguistic characteristic — see also provincialism)
Galician
3 entries- rexionalismo noun (affection)
- rexionalismo noun (political tendency)
- rexionalismo noun (linguistic characteristic — see also provincialism)
German
2 entries- Regionalismus noun (political tendency)
- Regionalismus noun (linguistic characteristic — see also provincialism)
Indonesian
2 entries- regionalisme noun (affection)
- regionalisme noun (political tendency)
Malay
2 entries- faham keserantauan noun (political tendency)
- regionalisme noun (political tendency)
Malayalam
1 entries- പ്രാദേശികവാദം noun (affection)
Marathi
1 entries- प्रादेशिकता noun (affection)
Polish
2 entries- regionalizm noun (political tendency)
- regionalizm noun (linguistic characteristic — see also provincialism)
Portuguese
1 entries- regionalismo noun (linguistic characteristic — see also provincialism)
Romanian
3 entries- regionalism noun (affection)
- regionalism noun (political tendency)
- regionalism noun (linguistic characteristic — see also provincialism)
Russian
4 entries- го́вор noun (linguistic characteristic — see also provincialism)
- ме́стничество noun (affection)
- провинциали́зм noun (linguistic characteristic — see also provincialism)
- райони́рование noun (political tendency)
Spanish
3 entries- regionalismo noun (affection)
- regionalismo noun (political tendency)
- regionalismo noun (linguistic characteristic — see also provincialism)
Vietnamese
2 entries- chủ nghĩa khu vực noun (political tendency)
- từ ngữ địa phương noun (linguistic characteristic — see also provincialism)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
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.
Source: wiktionary
... 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, ...
Source: wiktionary
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.
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