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Definitions: Parochial |
ParochialAdjective1. Relating to or supported by or located in a parish; "parochial schools". 2. Narrowly restricted in outlook or scope; "little sympathy with parocial mentality"; "insular attitudes toward foreigners". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "parochial" was first used: 1393. (references) |
Etymology: Parochial \Pa*ro"chi*al\, adjective. [from Late Latin expression parochialis, from the Latin expression parochia. See Parish.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Literature | Parochial Relating to a parish. Hence, petty, narrow. (See Little Englanders .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonym: ParochialSynonym: insular (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Region | Adjective: territorial, local, parochial, provincial, regional. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Parochial |
| English words defined with "parochial": Catholic school ♦ Parishional, parochial school, Parochiality, Parochialize, parochially, Parochian. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "parochial": Bands, big-endian ♦ Educational attainment ♦ Penny Readings ♦ Rector. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "parochial": Parishional, Parochiality. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Parochial" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (parochial). |
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Screenplays | Remember parochial school out on Paluski Street? (On the Waterfront; writing credit: Budd Schulberg.) I'm at Columbia and as far as this year's challenge for Igby, we're still waiting to hear back from this fun parochial school in D.C. (Igby Goes Down; writing credit: Burr Steers) | |
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 | Parochial school, Central Islip, Long Island. Exterior I.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | XXVIII International Eucharistic Congress, First General Meeting, Solemn Pontifical High Mass; His Eminence John Cardinal Bonzano, Celebrant; Choir, 60,000 parochial school children; Soldiers' Field, June 21, 1926, Chicago, Ill., U.S.A.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Civil Liberties | Brunei | In January 2000, the Government responded to objections from parents and religious leaders and set aside tentative plans to require that more Islamic courses be taught in private, non-Islamic parochial schools. (references) |
United Arab Emirates | Also during the year, the Catholic Church received permission to establish a secondary parochial school in Fujairah. (references) | |
Economic History | Haiti | Although public education is free, private and parochial schools provide around 88% of educational programs offered, and less than 65% of those eligible for primary education are actually enrolled. (references) |
Travel | Mexico | Colegio Junipero, a parochial school associated with the Dominican Sisters of California and the only Catholic bilingual school in Mexico City (K-6 with 450 students). (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | RECTOR, n. In the Church of England, the Third Person of the parochial Trinity, the Cruate and the Vicar being the other two. |
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| "Parochial" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 91.63% of the time. "Parochial" is used about 263 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 91.63% | 241 | 19,264 |
| Noun (proper) | 8.37% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Total | 100.00% | 263 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "parochial": parochial school. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "parochial": extra-parochial. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
parochial school | 31 |
parochial | 23 |
dallas league parochial | 6 |
parochial vicar | 3 |
parochial philadelphia school | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "parochial"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | provincial (provincial, small town), mendjengushtë (hidebound, illiberal, insular, little, low-minded, narrow minded, petty), i kufizuar (close, insular, limitary, limited, narrow, narrow minded, one sided, one track, one-idea'd, one-ideaed, qualified, restrained, restricted, Strait, straitened, suburban), famullor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | محدود التفكير (soft-headed), ضيق (bottleneck, canyon, choke, close, contract, cramped, hardship, incommodious, malaise, narrow, narrowness, need, oppression, pinch, scrimpy, shrink, slit, straiten, straits, strict, succinctness, tag, tight, tighten, tightness), أبرشي (diocesan, parishioner). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | тесен (choky, close, cramped, incommodious, jimp, narrow, pokey, scrimpy, skimpy, strict, tight, tight-fitted), ограничен (close, closed, confined, contracted, finite, hidebound, illiberal, insular, limitary, limited, mean, narrow, narrow minded, one track, open, pot-bound, restricted, scanty, small minded, sparing, strict, stringent, suburban), общински (municipal, parish), енорийски (parish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 教区 (Parish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zápecnický, obecní (communal, municipal), farní (parish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | parochie-. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | paroka, paroĥa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | محدود (Bound, Determinate, Moderate, Narrow), ناحیه ای (Zonal(Ary), Zonular), کوته نظر (Hidebound, Lowminded, Smug), بلوکی , بخشی (Divisor, Partial, Sectional, Sectorial). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | paroissial de cloché, paroissial (parish), borné. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | beschränkt (confined, constrictive, cramped, dense, dim, imbecile, imbecilic, lacking, limited, narrow, narrowly, obtuse, parochially, reduced, restricted, stinted, straitens). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κοινοτικόσ (communal), στενόσ (close, narrow, near, nigh), ενοριακόσ (parish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ק"לתי (communal, congregational), קרת י (boorish, provincial, rustic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | egyházi (churchman, ecclesiastic, ecclesiastical, spiritual, to inhibit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | provinciale (provincial, small town), parrocchiale (parish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 井の中の蛙大海'知らず (provincial, used to encourage someone to get a wider perspective). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | いのなかのかわずたいかい'しらず (provincial, used to encourage someone to get a wider perspective). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | skeeragh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arochialpay paroquial (one track). (various references) provincial (backwoodsman, countrified, country, provincial, rustic), parohial, sprijinit de o organizaţie religioasã, local (home, local, regional, topical, vernacular), limitat (close, conditioned, finite, hidebound, limitary, limited, narrow, narrow minded, one sided, restricted, scant, scanty), îngust (illiberal, little, local, low-minded, narrow, narrow minded, parochially, purblind, slender, slim, thin, tight). (various references) приходский (parish). (various references) parohijski (parish), uskogrud (insular, narrow minded), ograničen (confined, constrained, contracted, finite, limited, qualified, restricted, scanty, sheepish). (various references) parroquial (rectorial). (various references) socken- (parishional). (various references) sınırlı (contracted, determinate, finite, limited, ltd, measurable, narrow, restricted, scant, scanty, scarce, slender, stinted, Strait), dar görüşlü (hidebound, illiberal, insular, little, narrow minded, provincial, purblind, small minded, strait laced, untravelled), dar (acute, clinging, close fitting, close-bodied, constricted, exiguous, narrow, narrowly, poky, restrained, snug, Strait, stringent, tight), bölge kilisesine bağlı. (various references) обмежений (bat-minded, borne, confined, contracted, cramp, cramped, finite, illiberal, insular, limited, local, meager, meagre, narrow, narrow minded, one sided, one track, one-ideaed, one-liner, pinched, provincial, pure, qualified, restrained, restricted, restrictive, scant, shallow-brained, simple minded, small, small-scale, straitened, terminate), місцевий (aboriginal, domestic, home, home-bred, indigenous, local, locative, native, on site, on the spot, provincial, territorial, topical), парафіяльний. (various references) plwyfol. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | parochialis. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "parochial": parochialism, parochialisms, parochially. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "parochial": interparochial. (additional references) | |
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"Parochial" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Farrochil, pagophila, parachial, parchoial, parcial, parochia, parochials, parocial, perochial. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "parochial" (pronounced perō"kēul) |
| 4 | -k ē u l | tracheal. |
| 3 | -ē u l | actuarial, adverbial, adversarial, advertorial, aerial, alluvial, ambassadorial, antibacterial, arboreal, Ariel, arterial, bacterial, biaxial, bicentennial, biennial, binomial, biomaterial, bronchial, burial, centennial, cereal, ceremonial, coaxial, collegial, colloquial, colonial, conspiratorial, convivial, curatorial, custodial, decennial, dictatorial, directorial, editorial, endometrial, entrepreneurial, equatorial, ethereal, extraterrestrial, extraterritorial, filial, fluvial, gubernatorial, immaterial, immemorial, imperial, industrial, intracranial, janitorial, jovial, laryngeal, lineal, magisterial, malarial, managerial, marsupial, material, matrilineal, matrimonial, medial, memorial, menial, mercurial, microbial, millennial, ministerial, myocardial, nomenclatorial, patrilineal, perennial, pictorial, pluvial, polynomial, primordial, professorial, prosecutorial, proverbial, pseudopodial, quadrennial, radial, raptorial, remedial, reportorial, sartorial, secretarial, senatorial, serial, terrestrial, territorial, testimonial, triennial, trivial, tutorial, venereal, vestigial, vitriol. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-h-i-l-o-p-r" | |
-1 letter: orphical. | |
-2 letters: acholia, caporal, charpai, chorial, haircap, rachial. | |
-3 letters: apical, archil, caliph, carhop, caroli, carpal, chiral, choral, coprah, lochia, lorica, orchil, orphic, pariah, picara, picaro, racial, raphia. | |
-4 letters: acari, aloha, alpha, carol, carpi, chair, chiao, chiro, chirp, choir, claro, coala, copal, copra, coral, coria, craal, hilar, horal, ichor, laari, lahar, laich, larch, loach, orach, pacha, parch, parol, phial, pical, pilar, plica, poach, polar, porch, ralph, roach. | |
-5 letters: alar, arch, arco, aria, aril, calo, caph, capo, carl, carp, chao, chap, char, chia, chip, chop, ciao, clap, clip, clop, coal, coil, coir, cola, crap, crop, haar, hail, hair, halo, harl, harp, hila, hoar, holp, hora, laic, lair, lari, liar, lich, lipa, lira, loca, loch, loci, ohia, opah, opal, oral, orca, paca, pail, pair, para, pial, pica, prao, proa, raia, rail, rial, rich, roil. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-h-i-l-o-p-r" | |
+2 letters: allographic, anthropical, archipelago, parochially, rhapsodical. | |
+3 letters: archesporial, archipelagos, biographical, geographical, metaphorical, orographical, paleographic, parochialism, planographic. | |
+4 letters: anaphorically, aphrodisiacal, archipelagoes, astrophysical, cacographical, demographical, graphological, parochialisms, pharmacologic, pharmacopeial, polarographic, rhapsodically, topographical, typographical, xylographical. | |
+5 letters: achondroplasia, aphoristically, archiepiscopal, biographically, cartographical, chirographical, claustrophobia, cosmographical, discographical, ethnographical, geographically, hagiographical, iconographical, inapproachable, interparochial, irreproachable, irreproachably, metallographic, metaphorically, orthographical, paleographical, petrographical, pharmacologies, pharmacologist, pharmacopoeial, phraseological, polysaccharide. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 72 6F 63 68 69 61 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- .-. --- -.-. .... .. .- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01110010 01101111 01100011 01101000 01101001 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a r o c h i a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 0072 006F 0063 0068 0069 0061 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)506784816974756778 |
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