Definition of "parish" in English

noun

1. (Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, Lutheranism, Eastern Orthodoxy) An administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.

   • Near-synonym: vicarate

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. In some countries, an administrative subdivision of an area.

verb

1. (transitive) To place (an area, or rarely a person) into one or more parishes.

   • […] [m]akes possible, through the aid of the rural ministers, the development of the various phases of the District program, such as (a) Parishing of the District; (b) Interdenominational adjustment in the interest of rural religious advance […]

2. (intransitive) To visit residents of a parish.

verb

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