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
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  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
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  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
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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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Definitions from Wiktionary (parochial)

▸ 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.

Similar:
provincial, insular, parishional, parochialistic, small-town, parsonic, diocesan, eparchial, parroty, localist, more...

Opposite:
cosmopolitan, worldly, sophisticated

Types:
narrow-minded, bigoted, prejudiced, xenophobic, more...

Phrases:
parochial schools, parochial school, parochial education, parochial registers, parochial board, more...

Adjectives:
non, extra, monastic, other, anti, inter

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Similar:
provincial, insular, parishional, parochialistic, small-town, parsonic, diocesan, eparchial, parroty, localist, more...

Opposite:
cosmopolitan, worldly, sophisticated

Types:
narrow-minded, bigoted, prejudiced, xenophobic, more...

Phrases:
parochial schools, parochial school, parochial education, parochial registers, parochial board, parochial boards, parochial house, parochial vicar, Parochial church council, more...

Adjectives:
non, extra, monastic, other, anti, inter

Colors:
    maroon,     forest green,     burgundy,     charcoal,     olive, more...



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