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Webster 1913 Edition


Parishioner

Pa-rish′ion-er

,
Noun.
[F.
paroissien
, LL.
parochianus
.]
One who belongs to, or is connected with, a parish.

Webster 1828 Edition


Parishioner

PARISH'IONER

,
Noun.
One that belongs to a parish.

Definition 2024


parishioner

parishioner

English

Noun

parishioner (plural parishioners)

  1. A member of a parish.

Translations

Trivia

One of three common words containing shion, which are cushion, fashion, and parishioner.[2][3] A variant spelling of the obsolete earlier form was parishion, which gives a third historical English word ending in -shion, not simply containing it.[3]

References

  1. parishioner” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).
  2. The Word Circus: A Letter-perfect Book, by Richard Lederer, Dave Morice, 1998, p. 259
  3. 1 2 Weeds in the Garden of Words: Further Observations on the Tangled History of the English Language, Kate Burridge, 2005, p. 82, p. 184