For some, college can be an expansive experience that lifts them out of a parochial [pəˈroʊkiəl] mindset.

parochial
adj [pəˈroʊkiəl]

Parochial is a formal word that is usually used in a disapproving way to describe something that is limited in range or scope, as to a narrow region or area.

Both parish and its related adjective parochial were borrowed at that time directly from Anglo-French terms that came from parochia.

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