English Dictionary

parish

/ˈpæɹɪʃ/

noun

In the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran and Roman Catholic Church, an administrative part of a diocese that has its own church. / The community attending that church; the members of the parish.

The parish church is located in the center of town.

意味（1）

In the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran and Roman Catholic Church, an administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.

With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.

意味（2）

The community attending that church; the members of the parish.

意味（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.

意味（4）

A civil subdivision of a British county, often corresponding to an earlier ecclesiastical parish.

意味（5）

In some countries, an administrative subdivision of an area.

意味（6）

An administrative subdivision in the U.S. state of Louisiana that is equivalent to a county in other U.S. states.