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▸ noun:  (Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Lutheranism, Roman Catholicism) An administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.
▸ noun:  The community attending that church; the members of the parish.
▸ noun:  (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.
▸ noun:  A civil subdivision of a British county, often corresponding to an earlier ecclesiastical parish.
▸ noun:  In some countries, an administrative subdivision of an area.
▸ noun:  An administrative subdivision in the U.S. state of Louisiana that is equivalent to a county in other U.S. states.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To place (an area, or rarely a person) into one or more parishes.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To visit residents of a parish.
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  A town and village therein, in Oswego County, New York, United States.
▸ verb:  Pronunciation spelling of perish, representing Mary–marry–merry merger English. [(intransitive) To decay and disappear; to waste away to nothing.]

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