Usually means: Church jurisdiction led by bishop.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word diocese:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. diocese: Merriam-Webster
  2. diocese: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. diocese: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. diocese: Collins English Dictionary
  5. diocese: Vocabulary.com
  6. Diocese, diocese: Wordnik
  7. diocese: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. diocese: Wiktionary
  9. diocese: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. diocese: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. diocese: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Diocese, diocese: Dictionary.com
  13. diocese: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. diocese: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Diocese (Catholicism), Diocese (disambiguation), Diocese: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Diocese: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. diocese: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. diocese: Rhymezone
  19. Diocese: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. diocese: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. diocese: FreeDictionary.org
  22. diocese: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. diocese: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. diocese: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DIOCESE: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)
  2. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Diocese (Supplemental List), diocese: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Diocese (Supplemental List), diocese: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia of the Orient (No longer online)

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)
  2. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

(Note: See diocesan as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (historical) An administrative division of the later Roman Empire, established by the Herodian tetrarchy.
noun:  (Christianity) A group of parishes administered by a bishop.

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