A town and village therein, in Oswego County, New York, United States.
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.
(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.
A civil subdivision of a British county, often corresponding to an earlier ecclesiastical parish.
An administrative subdivision of an area, particularly in the u.s. state of louisiana where it is equivalent to a county in other u.s. states.
(transitive) To place (an area, or rarely a person) into one or more parishes.
(intransitive) To visit residents of a parish.
Pronunciation spelling of perish, representing Mary-marry-merry English.