Usually means: Limited to a small area.
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  1. parochial: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. parochial: Merriam-Webster
  3. parochial: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. parochial: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. parochial: Collins English Dictionary
  6. parochial: Vocabulary.com
  7. Parochial, parochial: Wordnik
  8. parochial: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. parochial: Wiktionary
  10. parochial: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. parochial: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. parochial: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. parochial: Dictionary.com
  14. parochial: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. parochial: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Parochial: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Parochial: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. parochial: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. parochial: Rhymezone
  20. Parochial: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. parochial: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Parochial: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. parochial: FreeDictionary.org
  24. parochial: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  25. parochial: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. parochial: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. parochial: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
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  3. parochial: Legal dictionary

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  1. parochial: Urban Dictionary

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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.
noun:  A parochial individual.

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