PARISHIONER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does parishioner mean? 

• PARISHIONER (noun)
  The noun PARISHIONER has 1 sense:

1. a member of a parish

  Familiarity information: PARISHIONER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARISHIONER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of a parish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("parishioner" is a kind of...):

church member; churchgoer (a religious person who goes to church regularly)

Holonyms ("parishioner" is a member of...):

parish (a local church community)

 Context examples 

The clergy are lost there in the crowds of their parishioners.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The clergyman stayed to exchange a few sentences, either of admonition or reproof, with his haughty parishioner; this duty done, he too departed.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Elizabeth was chiefly struck by his extraordinary deference for Lady Catherine, and his kind intention of christening, marrying, and burying his parishioners whenever it were required.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

He knows that human nature needs more lessons than a weekly sermon can convey; and that if he does not live among his parishioners, and prove himself, by constant attention, their well-wisher and friend, he does very little either for their good or his own.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)