Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word PARISH

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Definitions of PARISH

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. A civil subdivision of a British county, often corresponding to an earlier ecclesiastical parish.
4. In some countries, an administrative subdivision of an area.
5. (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.
6. (transitive) To place (an area, or rarely a person) into one or more parishes.
7. (intransitive) To visit residents of a parish.
8. Pronunciation spelling of perish.
9. A surname.
10. A town and village therein, in in Oswego County, New York, USA.

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Examples of Using PARISH in a Sentence

• He studied theology and canon law, and after acting as parish priest in his native diocese for twelve years was sent by the pope to Canada as a bishop's chaplain.
• The parish of Aberfoyle takes its name from this village, and had a population of 1,065 at the 2011 census.
• Alexandria is the ninth-largest city in the state of Louisiana and is the parish seat and largest city of Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States.
• The extent of the civil parish corresponds fairly closely to that of the town so is mostly urban in character.
• Churnsike Lodge is an early Victorian hunting lodge situated in the parish of Greystead, west Northumberland, England.
• Frederick Charles Copleston was born on 10 April 1907 at Claremont in the parish of Trull, near Taunton in Somerset, England, the eldest son of Frederick Selwyn Copleston (1850–1935), a judge of the High Court in Rangoon, Burma, by his second wife, Norah Margaret Little.
• who was a minister in the parish of Bothwell, Scotland, and sister of Hugh M'Kell, a minister in Edinburgh.
• The first element is thought to refer to specifically to Ham in the parish of Weston Peverel, now a suburb of Plymouth (whose name in turn came from the Old English word , meaning "water-meadow, land in the bend of a river").
• Pournelle was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, the seat of Caddo Parish in northwestern Louisiana, and later lived with his family in Capleville, Tennessee, an unincorporated area near Memphis.
• Historically in the county of Surrey, the ancient parish of Kingston covered both the town itself and a large surrounding area.
• Lindisfarne, also known as Holy Island, is a tidal island off the northeast coast of England, which constitutes the civil parish of Holy Island in Northumberland.
• It currently has five elected councillors on Cornwall Council, and several town and parish councillors across Cornwall.
• The hymns were written for use in Newton's rural parish, which was made up of relatively poor and uneducated followers.
• A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese.
• The population of Padstow civil parish was 3,162 in the 2001 census, reducing to 2,993 at the 2011 census.
• Stow-on-the-Wold is a market town and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England, on top of an 800-foot (244 m) hill at the junction of main roads through the Cotswolds, including the Fosse Way (A429), which is of Roman origin.
• He was shipped to New Orleans, purchased by a planter, and held as a slave for 12 years in the Red River region of Louisiana, mostly in Avoyelles Parish.
• At first, the school was named after the surrounding Immaculate Conception parish and did not offer higher education.
• Tyburn was a manor (estate) in London, Middlesex, England, one of two which were served by the parish of Marylebone.
• Tanfield is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Stanley, in the County Durham district, in the ceremonial county of Durham, England.

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