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The correct spelling is parish.
How to pronounce parish
/ˈpæɹɪʃ/
nounIPA: /ˈpæɹɪʃ/
Say it like: Par-ish
The correct spelling is parish. In the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran and Roman Catholic Church, an administrative part of a diocese that has its own church. For example: "1991, Melissa Bradley Kirkpatrick, Re-parishing the Countryside: Progressivism and Religious Interests in Rural Life Reform, 1908-1934"
Usage Examples
“1991, Melissa Bradley Kirkpatrick, Re-parishing the Countryside: Progressivism and Religious Interests in Rural Life Reform, 1908-1934”
Meanings
noun
- 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.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
- 1.To place (an area, or rarely a person) into one or more parishes.
- 2.To visit residents of a parish.
- 3.To decay and disappear; to waste away to nothing.
- 4.To decay in such a way that it can't be used for its original purpose
- 5.To die; to cease to live.
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