regionalist
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- adjective
- /ˈriːdʒənəlɪst/
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regionalista
- Her paintings reflect a regionalist style, capturing the essence of life in the countryside.
- regionalist movement
- regionalist option
Examples
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The festival showcased a variety of regionalist traditions that highlighted the unique culture of the area.
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Many regionalist authors draw inspiration from the folklore and history of their hometowns.
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We then examine why a regionalist perspective is all but absent among this constituency.
Academic text (1994) -
As such, it is hard to be optimistic concerning basketball's regionalist future.
Academic text (1994) -
The change in ownership placed the Mena House on a new map of regionalist globalization in the Indian Ocean.
Academic text (2005) -
In this way, we may be able to identify not only the level of regionalist support but also the mechanisms that give rise to these sentiments in the West Indies.
Academic text (1994) -
With respect to the first basic truth in Canadian foreign policy, the regionalist impulse has served to deepen our relationship with the United States; though, to be sure, it has generated some very real differences and disagreements.
Academic text (2004) -
More importantly, an explicitly regionalist approach has long characterized scholarship of the Great Plains (Luebke 1984).
Academic text (1999) -
However, I argue that the Canadian government can pursue a foreign policy that is sensitive to regionalist trends while, at the same time, remaining committed to the more general principles and practices of neoliberal institutionalism and multilateral management.
Academic text (2004) -
But South African progressive civil society is also regionalist and internationalist in outlook and must rebut similar politics of justification by academics who dominate the field of international relations.
Academic text (2006)
Synonyms
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3.5
About a particular part of a country or area rather than the whole country
Giving more importance to local needs than to national ones
How Regional
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Regionalist comes from region meaning 'area' and the ending -ist which shows a connection to that area. So a regionalist adjective describes things that belong to or show the special features of one area rather than the whole country.