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Definition parish

Etymology 1

From Middle English parisshe, from Old French paroisse (compare the obsolete variant paroch, from Anglo-Norman paroche, parosse), from Late Latin parochia, from Ancient Greek ???????? (paroikía, “a dwelling abroad”), from ???????? (pároikos, “neighboring, foreigner”), from ???? (pará, “beside”) + ????? (oîkos, “house”).

Noun

parish (plural parishes)

1. In the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran and Roman Catholic Church, an administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.
2. The community attending that church; the members of the parish.
3. (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.
4. A civil subdivision of a British county, often corresponding to an earlier ecclesiastical parish.
5. An administrative subdivision in the U.S. state of Louisiana that is equivalent to a county in other U.S. states.

Verb

parish (third-person singular simple present parishes, present participle parishing, simple past and past participle parished)

1. (transitive) To place (an area, or rarely a person) into one or more parishes.
2. (intransitive) To visit residents of a parish.

Etymology 2

Verb

parish (third-person singular simple present parishes, present participle parishing, simple past and past participle parished)

1. Pronunciation spelling of perish, representing Mary-marry-merry English.

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