parish
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
parish/ˈparɪʃ/
▶noun
- 1 (in the Christian Church) a small administrative district typically having its own church and clergy.
- 2 (also civil parish) Brit. the smallest unit of local government in rural areas.
- 3 US (in Louisiana) a territorial division corresponding to a county in other states.
– origin ME: from Anglo-Norman Fr. and OFr. paroche, from late L. parochia, from Gk paroikia ‘sojourning’, based on para- ‘beside, subsidiary’ + oikos ‘dwelling’.
'parish' also found in these Oxford entries:
banns
- beadle
- beat
- chapel of ease
- churchwarden
- cliometrics
- curate
- cure
- curé
- Hocktide
- Kirk session
- mortuary
- parish council
- parishioner
- parish-pump
- parish register
- parochial
- peculiar
- perambulate
- poor rate
- pope
- presbytery
- priest-in-charge
- rector
- sacristan
- strontia
- title
- titular
- township
- vicar
- vicariate
- workhouse
- worsted
