Municipal vs Parochial - What's the difference?
municipal | parochial | Synonyms |
Of or pertaining to a municipality (a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government).
Of or pertaining to the internal affairs of a nation.
(finance) A financial instrument issued by a municipality.
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Pertaining to a parish.
Characterized by an unsophisticated focus on local concerns to the exclusion of wider contexts; elementary in scope or outlook.
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* 1969 , : A History of the Scottish People 1560-1830 , p 341:
Municipal is a synonym of parochial.
As adjectives the difference between municipal and parochial
is that municipal is of or pertaining to a municipality (a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government) while parochial is pertaining to a parish.As a noun municipal
is (finance) a financial instrument issued by a municipality.municipal
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* civicDerived terms
* municipalityNoun
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(en adjective)- 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.
- 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.
- Its atmosphere might have been provincial, but it was never merely parochial .