💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Civil parish"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| parishnoun | (Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, Lutheranism, Eastern Orthodoxy) An administrative part of a diocese that has its own church. |
| communitynoun | (countable) A group sharing common characteristics, such as the same language, law, religion, or tradition. |
| parishingnoun | A hamlet or village associated with a local church. |
| districtnoun | An administrative division of an area. |
| county boroughnoun | A borough (or town), in England, Wales or Northern Ireland, whose government is independent of its local county council. |
| boroughnoun | A town having a municipal corporation and certain traditional rights. |
| churchtownnoun | (UK) In the southwest of England, a hamlet or village distinguished by being the location of a parish church. |
| burghnoun | (UK) a borough or chartered town (now only used as an official subdivision in Scotland). |
| borough councilnoun | (UK) A body of people elected to manage the affairs of a local government district with borough status, metropolitan borough or London borough; e.g. Spelthorne Borough Council. |
| metropolitan boroughnoun | (UK) A subdivision of a metropolitan county, having the status of a borough. |
| parochial boardnoun | (Scotland, historical) A board in each parish set up to assist the poor. |
| parlingtonnoun | A civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, served by Aberford & District Parish Council (OS grid ref SE4236). |
| royal boroughnoun | A borough, currently only in England, which has been granted a royal charter. |
| parochial schoolnoun | A school associated with the parish of a church. |
| municipal boroughnoun | (British) A city or town in England and Wales with an elected town council consisting of a mayor, aldermen and councillors. |
| citynoun | A large settlement, bigger than a town; sometimes with a specific legal definition, depending on the place. |
| glebenoun | Turf; soil; ground; sod. |
| glebe-landnoun | (historical) Area of land belonging to a parish in medieval times. |
| outparishnoun | (historical) A parish lying outside the walls of, or in a remote part of, a town. |
| close boroughnoun | Synonym of pocket borough. |
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