Regionalism

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

Affection, often excessive, for one's own region and to everything related to it..

Definitions by Sense

1. Affection, often excessive, for one's own region and to everything related to it.
2. (politics) The belief that most or nearly all political power should be decentralized to regional governments.
3. (countable, linguistics) A word or phrase originating in, characteristic of, or limited to a region.
4. Regional character, local color.

Example Sentences

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.

... 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, ...

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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