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# parishioner

«parishioner» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who lives in a parish or belongs to its church** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a parishioner, parishioners)

### meaning for a pupil

(church) A parishioner is a person who lives in a parish or belongs to its church. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parishioner/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In church life: the vicar or priest visits parishioners; parishioners help with the church fete, flowers and food bank. It tells the reader about the members of a local church community.

### examples

- The priest greeted every parishioner at the door. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parishioner/#x1)
- Parishioners decorated the church for the harvest festival. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parishioner/#x2)
- Many parishioners came to the carol service. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parishioner/#x3)
- Mrs O'Brien is a parishioner who arranges the flowers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parishioner/#x4)
- The vicar visits sick parishioners at home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parishioner/#x5)
- Parishioners raised money to fix the church roof. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parishioner/#x6)

### note

From «parish», the area served by one church and priest. Said pa-RISH-uh-ner.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «parishioner» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parishioner/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.