parish
Because it is a word with a single syllable, parish is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofparish
- 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.
- 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.
- A civil subdivision of a British county, often corresponding to an earlier ecclesiastical parish.
- An administrative subdivision in the U.S. state of Louisiana that is equivalent to a county in other U.S. states.
- To place (an area, or rarely a person) into one or more parishes.
Example: "1991, Melissa Bradley Kirkpatrick, Re-parishing the Countryside: Progressivism and Religious Interests in Rural Life Reform, 1908-1934"
- To visit residents of a parish.
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