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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a lack of sophistication;

2. a partiality for some particular place;
[syn: sectionalism, provincialism, localism]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

provincialism n 1: a lack of sophistication 2: a partiality for some particular place [syn: sectionalism, provincialism, localism]