[{"word":"parishes","phonetics":[],"meanings":[{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"In the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran and Roman Catholic Church, an administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"The community attending that church; the members of the parish.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"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.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"A civil subdivision of a British county, often corresponding to an earlier ecclesiastical parish.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"An administrative subdivision in the U.S. state of Louisiana that is equivalent to a county in other U.S. states.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/parish","https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/parishes"]}]