provincialism
/prəˈvɪnʃ(ə)lɪz(ə)m/
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prəˈvɪnʃəlɪzəm
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prə - ˈvɪnʃəlɪzəm -> provincialism
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provincial /prǝ'vÇnʃl/ adj
၁။ (attrib) (က) စီရင်စု။ the provincial government. ❍ provincial taxes. (ခ) နယ်။ provincial newspapers/ theatres/ towns.
၂။ (derog ) ဒေသစွဲ။ provincial attitudes.
n (usu derog ) တောကတက်လာသူ။ တောသား။ ဂနိုင်ကျသူ။ အမြင်ကျဉ်းသူ။ Whenever I go to New York I feel like a provincial.
❏ provincialism /-Çzǝm/ n (derog ) [U] ဒေသစိတ်။ ဒေသအစွဲ။ He wanted to escape from the provincialism of the small town where he had been brought up. provincially /-ʃǝli/ adv
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local, regional, backwoodsperson, bigoted, bucolic, churl, cottager, countrified; limited, country, country cousin, country-dweller, countryman/woman, countryperson, county, cropper, district, farmhand, hidebound, homegrown, homespun, insular, inward-looking, mucker, narrow, narrow-minded, niggard, outmoded, parochial, pastoral, peasant, petty, planter, rude, rural, ruralist, rustic, sectarian, sharecropper, simple, small-minded, small-town, unfashionable, uninformed, unpolished, unsophisticated, villein
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