Plural of parish

Forms of parish

Parishes in a sentence

• The building was your typical “cafegymatorium,” that all-purpose building found in parishes throughout the northeast.2013, Gil Francisco, Behind Success: A Principal’s Reminisce, page 51. From the entry cafegymatorium
• The reader should remember that husbandmen in fielden parishes formed a majority of the rural population.1972, Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, Folio Society, published 2016, page 33. From the entry fielden
• The experience reported by some priests of their postconciliar parishes appears to bear out my thesis.1967 March 3, Daniel Callahan, “The Renewal Mass”, in Commonweal, page 622; quoted in J. Paul Williams, What Americans Believe and How…. From the entry postconciliar
• These eighty-two parishes were roughly coterminous with the existing seigneuries, but not always so.1915, William Bennett Munro et al., The Seigneurs of Old Canada (Chronicles of Canada), volume 5. From the entry coterminous
• In a number of parishes tithe was due on mills, and, at Fowey, on limehouses, but only for coppice wood.1974, Richard Potts, A Calendar of Cornish Glebe Terriers, 1673-1735, page xviii. From the entry limehouse

Meaning of parish

1. noun An administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.
2. noun The community attending that church; the members of the parish.
3. noun 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.

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Questions about the plural of parish

What is the plural of parish?

The plural of parish is parishes.

Is parish countable?

Parish is a countable noun.