Community vs Parochial - What's the difference?

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Community is a related term of parochial.

As a noun community

is a group sharing a common understanding and often the same language, manners, tradition and law see civilization.

As an adjective parochial is

pertaining to a parish.

community

English

Noun

(wikipedia community) (communities)

A group sharing a common understanding and often the same language, manners, tradition and law. See civilization.

* Hallam

Burdens upon the poorer classes of the community .

* Wordsworth

Creatures that in communities exist.

A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime (Oscar Wilde)

A commune, or residential or religious collective.

The condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common.

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(ecology) A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.

(internet) A group of people interacting by electronic means for social, professional, educational or other purposes; a virtual community.

(obsolete) Common possession or enjoyment; participation.

* (John Locke)

The original community of all things.

* (Washington Irving)

An unreserved community of thought and feeling.

(obsolete) common character; likeness.

* H. Spencer

The essential community of nature between organic growth and inorganic growth.

(obsolete) commonness; frequency

* Shakespeare

Eyes sick and blunted with community .

Derived terms

* community service * community spirit

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parochial

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Pertaining to a parish.

Characterized by an unsophisticated focus on local concerns to the exclusion of wider contexts; elementary in scope or outlook.

The use of simple, primary colors in the painting gave it a parochial feel .

Some people in the United States have been accused of taking a parochial view, of not being interested in international matters.

* 1918 , 1st of February, "

But for men of principle and honour and straightforward thought there could be no middle course and no paltering with petty issues of party or parochial advantage.

* 1969 , : A History of the Scottish People 1560-1830 , p 341:

Its atmosphere might have been provincial, but it was never merely parochial .