name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
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Standard Lemma guide
parish
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpæɹɪʃ/
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General-American: /ˈpæɹɪʃ/ without the Mary–marry–merry merger
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/ˈpɛɹɪʃ/ General American, Mary–marry–merry merger
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General-American: Mmmm Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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Scotland, Wales: /ˈpaɾɪʃ/
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homophone: perish (Mary–marry–merry merger)
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rhymes with -æɹɪʃ
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CMU ARPABET: P AE1 R IH0 SH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: P EH1 R IH0 SH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A town and village therein, in Oswego County, New York, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
An administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: Anglicanism; Eastern Orthodoxy; Anglicanism; Eastern Orthodoxy
Topics: Catholicism, Christianity, Roman-Catholicism
Examples
- Near-synonym: vicarate
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: vicarate
Antonyms: none provided
Narrower terms: gimong
noun
Meaning 4
The community attending that church; the members of the parish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: parishioner
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
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noun
Meaning 6
In any of various countries, an administrative subdivision of an area, often of a county.
A civil subdivision of a British county, often corresponding to an earlier ecclesiastical parish; a similar subdivision in Ireland.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: civil parish
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
In any of various countries, an administrative subdivision of an area, often of a county.
An administrative subdivision in the U.S. state of Louisiana that is equivalent to a county in other U.S. states.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: civil parish
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 8
To place (an area, or rarely a person) into one or more parishes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 9
To visit residents of a parish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 10
Pronunciation spelling of perish, representing Mary–marry–merry merger English.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
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noun
Meaning 11
a local church community
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: community
noun
Meaning 12
the local subdivision of a diocese committed to one pastor
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: jurisdiction
History
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”).
Across languages
Translations
132 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: أبرشية — part of a diocese
- Armenian: համայնք (hamaynkʻ) — part of a diocese
- Armenian: եկեղեցական ծուխ (ekeġecʻakan cux) — part of a diocese
- Basque: parrokia — part of a diocese
- Belarusian: прыход (pryxód) — part of a diocese
- Belarusian: парафія (parafija) — part of a diocese
- Breton: parrez — part of a diocese
- Bulgarian: енория (enorija) — part of a diocese
- Catalan: parròquia — part of a diocese
- Chinese Mandarin: 教區 /教区 (jiàoqū) — part of a diocese
- Czech: farnost — part of a diocese
- Danish: sogn — part of a diocese
- Dutch: parochie — part of a diocese
- Esperanto: paroĥo — part of a diocese
- Estonian: kihelkond — part of a diocese
- Finnish: seurakunta — part of a diocese
- French: paroisse — part of a diocese
- Galician: parroquia — part of a diocese
- Galician: freguesía — part of a diocese
- Georgian: მრევლი (mrevli) — part of a diocese
- German: Gemeinde — part of a diocese
- German: Pfarrei — part of a diocese
- Central Franconian: Jemeinde — part of a diocese
- Greek: ενορία (enoría) — part of a diocese
- Hindi: पैरिश (pairiś) — part of a diocese
- Hungarian: plébánia — part of a diocese
- Hungarian: parókia — part of a diocese
- Icelandic: sókn — part of a diocese
- Indonesian: paroki — part of a diocese
- Ingrian: kirkkokunta — part of a diocese
- Irish: paróiste — part of a diocese
- Italian: parrocchia — part of a diocese
- Japanese: 小教区 (shōkyōku) — part of a diocese
- Korean: 사목구 (samokgu) — part of a diocese
- Korean: 전도구 (jeondogu) — part of a diocese
- Korean: 구역 (guyeok) — part of a diocese
- Latvian: draudze — part of a diocese
- Lithuanian: parapija — part of a diocese
- Macedonian: паро́хија (paróhija) — part of a diocese
- Macedonian: ено́рија (enórija) — part of a diocese
- Macedonian: жу́па (žúpa) — part of a diocese
- Malagasy: fitandremana — part of a diocese
- Malay: paroki — part of a diocese
- Malayalam: ഇടവക (iṭavaka) — part of a diocese
- Māori: pāriha — part of a diocese
- Middle English: parisshe — part of a diocese
- Norwegian Bokmål: sogn — part of a diocese
- Norwegian Bokmål: sokn — part of a diocese
- Norwegian Nynorsk: sokn — part of a diocese
- Polish: parafia — part of a diocese
- Portuguese: paróquia — part of a diocese
- Romanian: parohie — part of a diocese
- Romanian: enorie — part of a diocese
- Russian: прихо́д (prixód) — part of a diocese
- Scottish Gaelic: paraiste — part of a diocese
- Serbo-Croatian: парохија — part of a diocese
- Serbo-Croatian: жупа — part of a diocese
- Serbo-Croatian: parohija — part of a diocese
- Serbo-Croatian: župa — part of a diocese
- Slovak: farnosť — part of a diocese
- Slovene: župnija — part of a diocese
- Spanish: parroquia — part of a diocese
- Spanish: congregación — part of a diocese
- Swahili: parishi — part of a diocese
- Swahili: parokia — part of a diocese
- Swedish: församling — part of a diocese
- Tagalog: parokya — part of a diocese
- Ukrainian: пара́фія (paráfija) — part of a diocese
- Ukrainian: паро́хія (paróxija) — part of a diocese
- Vietnamese: giáo xứ — part of a diocese
- Welsh: plwyf — part of a diocese
- Arabic: رَعِيَّة (raʕiyya) — members of the parish
- Belarusian: паства (pastva) — members of the parish
- Belarusian: парафіяне (parafijanje) — members of the parish
- Bulgarian: енориаш (enoriaš) — members of the parish
- Danish: sogn — members of the parish
- Dutch: parochianen — members of the parish
- Esperanto: paroĥano — members of the parish
- Finnish: seurakunta — members of the parish
- French: paroisse — members of the parish
- Galician: parroquia — members of the parish
- Georgian: მრევლი (mrevli) — members of the parish
- German: Gemeindemitglied — members of the parish
- Central Franconian: Jemeinde — members of the parish
- Greek: ενορία (enoría) — members of the parish
- Hungarian: egyházközség — members of the parish
- Hungarian: gyülekezet — members of the parish
- Hungarian: hitközség — members of the parish
- Hungarian: hívek — members of the parish
- Italian: parrocchiani — members of the parish
- Macedonian: парохи́јани (parohíjani) — members of the parish
- Macedonian: жу́пници (žúpnici) — members of the parish
- Middle English: parisshe — members of the parish
- Polish: parafianin — members of the parish
- Polish: parafianka — members of the parish
- Portuguese: paróquia — members of the parish
- Portuguese: paroquianos — members of the parish
- Romanian: parohie — members of the parish
- Romanian: enorie — members of the parish
- Russian: прихожа́не (prixožáne) — members of the parish
- Russian: па́ства (pástva) — members of the parish
- Scots: pairish — members of the parish
- Scottish Gaelic: paraiste — members of the parish
- Spanish: feligreses — members of the parish
- Swedish: församling — members of the parish
- Tagalog: parokya — members of the parish
- Vietnamese: giáo xứ — members of the parish
- Vietnamese: họ đạo — members of the parish
- Finnish: seurakunta — ecclesiastical society
- Russian: общи́на (obščína) — ecclesiastical society
- Bulgarian: община (obština) — civil subdivision of a county
- Chinese Cantonese: 堂區 /堂区 (tong4 keoi1) — civil subdivision of a county
- Chinese Mandarin: 堂區 /堂区 (tángqū) — civil subdivision of a county
- Finnish: kunta — civil subdivision of a county
- French: commune — civil subdivision of a county
- Galician: parroquia — civil subdivision of a county
- German: Gemeinde — civil subdivision of a county
- Central Franconian: Jemeinde — civil subdivision of a county
- Hungarian: község — civil subdivision of a county
- Italian: comune — civil subdivision of a county
- Macedonian: о́круг (ókrug) — civil subdivision of a county
- Macedonian: око́лија (okólija) — civil subdivision of a county
- Middle English: parisshe — civil subdivision of a county
- Norman: pâraîsse — civil subdivision of a county
- Portuguese: freguesia — civil subdivision of a county
- Romanian: comună — civil subdivision of a county
- Russian: о́круг (ókrug) — civil subdivision of a county
- Scots: pairish — civil subdivision of a county
- Scottish Gaelic: paraiste — civil subdivision of a county
- Spanish: parroquia — civil subdivision of a county
- Swedish: parish — civil subdivision of a county
- Vietnamese: xã — civil subdivision of a county
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