parish
IPA: pˈærɪʃ
noun
- In the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran and Roman Catholic Church, an administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.
- The community attending that church; the members of the parish.
- (US) An ecclesiastical society, usually not bounded by territorial limits, but composed of those persons who choose to unite under the charge of a particular priest, clergyman, or minister; also, loosely, the territory in which the members of a congregation live.
- A civil subdivision of a British county, often corresponding to an earlier ecclesiastical parish.
- In some countries, an administrative subdivision of an area.
- An administrative subdivision in the U.S. state of Louisiana that is equivalent to a county in other U.S. states.
- A surname.
- A town and village therein, in Oswego County, New York, United States.
verb
- (transitive) To place (an area, or rarely a person) into one or more parishes.
- (intransitive) To visit residents of a parish.
- Pronunciation spelling of perish, representing Mary-marry-merry English. [(intransitive) To decay and disappear; to waste away to nothing.]
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