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parish English

Learners of English as a second language usually know the word parish once they have reached the level B2 – Upper Intermediate. English words by learner level A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2

Meaning parish meaning

What does parish mean?

Definitions in simple English

parish Noun

— An area looked after by one local church and its ministers

— Parish is the name used instead of county in the State of Louisiana, USA.

— A Civil Parish is the smallest local government area in England.

parish

— noun a local church community

— noun the local subdivision of a diocese committed to one pastor

Synonyms parish synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as parish?

parish English » English

parochial

congregation

church

ward

village

township

territory

region

municipality

flock

ecclesiastical unit

department

denomination

demesne

county

conton

community

chapel

arrondissement

area

archdiocese

Topics parish topics

What do people use parish to talk about?

Social behavior Religion

Religious organization

• What words refer to a group of believers in a particular place?
  church congregation diocese parish

Examples parish examples

How do I use parish in a sentence?

Simple sentences

He is a member of the parish committee.

Movie subtitles

Oh, I've decided to write to my sister and borrow her cream two-piece that she wears for parish high days and holidays.

These two had wandered over the mountain from a neighboring parish.

Do you want to go to look for a parish priest, Maria?

The parish priest left.

Got the kids shilling for the parish?

Get a room here in the parish.

Jerry Connolly, the priest from the parish.

You should have been making parish calls.

Where's your parish?

As fine a lad as there is in the parish.

To hear the police talk, you'd think that every lad in the parish was a criminal.

I'd hate to see that crazy quilt leaving the parish.

Well, did you make your parish calls?

I was with the Bishop this afternoon, and he's transferring me to another parish.

Evening at the parish house.

Is his lover hiding at the parish?

Your master will throw you out of the parish.

Jerry Connelly, the priest from the parish.

So I'm going to assign you to a parish.

But. with your kind permission, I would rather have it than the parish.

Have to wait for the sheriff to pass them through the parish line.

This parish always has been above the fever line.

We got orders to shoot whoever tries to pass the parish boundaries.

Well, when the white gentlemen stop me I leave the horse and go walking across the back of the parish because I'm bound to get back to Halcyon.

I, Iris Matilda Henderson, a spinster of no particular parish. solemnly renounce my maidenly past and declare that on Thursday 26. I shall take the veil and orange blossom. and change my name to Lady Charles Fotheringail. -Can't he change his name?

Where's your parish? Right over here, St. Francis.

Where's your parish, Father?

In the meantime, you can send your congregation over to my parish.

Tramping all over the parish to raise funds.

Well, did you make your parish calls? Yes.

Is it a parish of your own?

News and current affairs

The hatred began when Aristide, then a parish priest and democracy campaigner against Haiti's ruthless Duvalier dictatorship, preached liberation theology in the 1980's.