Definition/Meaning of parish

• English - Noun: parish (plural parishes) An administrative part of a diocese that has its own church . Near-synonym: vicarate 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC: With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St. Bede's at this…
• English - Verb: parish (third-person singular simple present parishes, present participle parishing, simple past and past participle parished) (transitive) To place (an area, or rarely a person) into one or more parishes. 2011, Sustainable development in the Localism Bill: third report, →ISBN, page 5: Dr Whitehead: In your written evidence, you have all in different ways made the distinction between NDOs in…
• English - Etymology: 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 παροικία (paroikía, “a dwelling abroad”).
• English - Pronunciation: (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈpæɹɪʃ/ (General American) IPA: /ˈpæɹɪʃ/ IPA: /ˈpɛɹɪʃ/ (Scotland, Wales) IPA: /ˈpaɾɪʃ/ Homophone: perish (Mary–marry–merry merger) Rhymes: -æɹɪʃ Homophone: perish (Mary–marry–merry merger) Homophone: perish (Mary–marry–merry merger)
• English - Synonyms: vicarate parishioner civil parish