OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 18287

parish

/ˈpæɹɪʃ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
congregación • parroquia
An administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.
Near-synonym: vicarate
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…
feligreses
The community attending that church; the members of the parish.
parroquia
A civil subdivision of a British county, often corresponding to an earlier ecclesiastical parish.
Atlantic gales constantly buffet Morwenstow, whose seven hamlets together constitute Cornwall's most northerly parish. The village is dotted with trees moulded into weird shapes by…
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