parochial

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Narrow in outlook; concerned only with local matters and ignoring the wider world.

   Their views were too parochial to grasp how the decision affected other countries.

2. 2
   adj

   Relating to a church parish, especially a parish school.

   She attended a parochial school run by the local church.

From Anglo-Norman parochial and its source Late Latin parochialis, an alteration of paroecialis (“of a church province”), from paroecia, from Hellenistic Greek παροικία (paroikía, “stay in a foreign land”), later “community, diocese”, from Ancient Greek πάροικος (pároikos, “neighbouring, neighbour”), from παρα- (para-) + οἶκος (oîkos, “house”).

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