Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, supported by, or located in a parish.
- adjective Of or relating to parochial schools.
- adjective Narrowly restricted in scope or outlook; provincial.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to a parish: as, a parochial custom.
- Local; provincial; narrow.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a parish; restricted to a parish.
- adjective Limited; narrow; having or characterized by narrow interests centered on oneself or one's local community; narrow-minded; provincial.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Pertaining to a
parish . - adjective Characterized by an unsophisticated focus on local concerns to the exclusion of wider contexts; elementary in scope or outlook.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective narrowly restricted in outlook or scope
- adjective relating to or supported by or located in a parish
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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No one makes this point better than Turkish novelist Elif Shafak, who often discusses the power of storytelling and its capacity to bring us outside and beyond what she calls our parochial "circles."
Joseph Smigelski: Film Review: Just Like Us Joseph Smigelski 2011
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No one makes this point better than Turkish novelist Elif Shafak, who often discusses the power of storytelling and its capacity to bring us outside and beyond what she calls our parochial "circles."
Joseph Smigelski: Film Review: Just Like Us Joseph Smigelski 2011
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Music director Alexander Platt said the name change also "transcends" what he called the parochial competition that occasionally occurs between Milwaukee and Waukesha.
Los Angeles Business News - Local Los Angeles News | Los Angeles Business from bizjournals 2010
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Music director Alexander Platt said the name change also "transcends" what he called the parochial competition that occasionally occurs between Milwaukee and Waukesha.
Jacksonville Business News - Local Jacksonville News | Jacksonville Business Journal 2010
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Music director Alexander Platt said the name change also "transcends" what he called the parochial competition that occasionally occurs between Milwaukee and Waukesha.
Jacksonville Business News - Local Jacksonville News | Jacksonville Business Journal 2010
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Music director Alexander Platt said the name change also "transcends" what he called the parochial competition that occasionally occurs between Milwaukee and Waukesha.
National Business News - Local Business News | bizjournals 2010
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Music director Alexander Platt said the name change also "transcends" what he called the parochial competition that occasionally occurs between Milwaukee and Waukesha.
Jacksonville Business News - Local Jacksonville News | Jacksonville Business Journal 2010
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Music director Alexander Platt said the name change also "transcends" what he called the parochial competition that occasionally occurs between Milwaukee and Waukesha.
San Antonio Business News - Local San Antonio News | The San Antonio Business Journal 2010
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His patronizing view of peasants, with their relative advantage in parochial skills, is quite common.
I'll Defend IQ, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Not at all – most of as working class or lower middle class kids were privately educated in parochial schools that our parents scrimped to pay for, then benefited from the public colleges in our states.
alejinha commented on the word parochial
Patriotic
September 20, 2010
dailyword commented on the word parochial
Father Ted used this word when he was giving a policeman his address after looking at a couple in the process of making love.
June 10, 2012
SouvikDubey commented on the word parochial
mnemonics view from a parrots eye that is parochial
August 7, 2012
TrueObsession14 commented on the word parochial
parochial means you think your ways and where you're from is better than anywhere else...very close minded.
July 24, 2015
mohitanand commented on the word parochial
narrowly restricted in scope or outlook
Jasmine was sad to admit it, but her fledgling relationship with Jacob did not work out because his culinary tastes were simply too parochial; "After all," she quipped on her blog, "he considered Chef Boyardee ethnic food."
October 11, 2016