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1. Oxford Dictionary

   provincialism

   • IPA[prəˈvɪnʃəlɪz(ə)m]

   英式

   • n.
     the way of life characteristic of the regions outside the capital city of a country, especially when regarded as unsophisticated or narrow-minded；narrow-mindedness, insularity, or lack of sophistication

   • noun: provincialism, plural noun: provincialisms

2. • 釋義

   n.

   名詞

   • 1. the way of life characteristic of the regions outside the capital city of a country, especially when regarded as unsophisticated or narrow-minded book-loving Belle was burning to escape the provincialism of her village
   • ▪ narrow-mindedness, insularity, or lack of sophistication the provincialism of modern novelists
   • 2. concern for one's own area or region at the expense of national or supranational unity the President warned that focusing on relations with close neighbours would lead to political provincialism
   • 3. a word or phrase peculiar to a local area if an idiom is a provincialism, it is likely to be found in a dialect dictionary
   • 4. the degree to which plant or animal communities are restricted to particular areas the lack of provincialism in Silurian fauna
3. • 更多解釋

   provincialism

   • IPA[prəˈvin(t)SHəˌliz(ə)m]

   美式

   • n.
     the way of life or mode of thought characteristic of the regions outside the capital city of a ... book-loving Belle was burning to escape the provincialism of her village

   Oxford American Dictionary