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English noun: localism

1. localism (communication) a phrase or pronunciation that is peculiar to a particular locality


Broader (hypernym)non-standard speech

2. localism (cognition) a partiality for some particular place


Synonymsprovincialism, sectionalism


Broader (hypernym)partiality, partisanship









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