1 [usuallybeforenoun] (formal) connected with a church PARISH:
parochial schools * a member of the parochial church council
2 (disapproving) only concerned with small issues that happen in your local area and not interested in more important things:
They need to be better informed and less parochial in their thinking.
parochialism noun [U]:
the parochialism of a small community
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