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As a noun, parish means in the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran and Roman Catholic Church, an administrative part of a diocese that has its own church. As a verb, it means place (an area, or rarely a person) into one or more parishes.
Meanings of parish
10 meaningsnoun
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.
USAn 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.
The local subdivision of a diocese committed to one pastorlocation
verb
To place (an area, or rarely a person) into one or more parishes.
To visit residents of a parish.
Pronunciation spelling of perish.
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).