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say it: PAR-ish
parish is a noun meaning "a local church community". It is pronounced /ˈpæɹɪʃ/ — PAR-ish. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a local church community
the local subdivision of a diocese committed to one pastor
Forms marked are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for parish come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.