Difference between Parochial and Provincial

What is the difference between Parochial and Provincial?

Parochial as an adjective is pertaining to a parish. while Provincial as an adjective is of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.

Parochial

Part of speech: adjective

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

Example sentence: It's a very, very fascinating story for me, cause it's about a man who's been doing bad; bad things. And he's a father of four children in parochial school, he's a lieutenant of detectives, but he's in conflict with himself and with trying to do what's right.

Provincial

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.Not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal.Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal.limited in outlook; narrow

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.(Roman Catholic Church): A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order.A country bumpkin.

Example sentence: I was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the moment I got to America I thought: This is the place. It was more open, with 24-hour cities and pubs and restaurants that didn't close.

We hope you now know whether to use Parochial or Provincial in your sentence.

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