Church vs Church - What's the difference?
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(countable) A Christian house of worship; a building where religious services take place.
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Christians collectively seen as a single spiritual community; Christianity.
* Acts 20:28, New International Version:
(countable) A local group of people who follow the same Christian religious beliefs, local or general.
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(countable) A particular denomination of Christianity.
(uncountable, countable, as bare noun) Christian worship held at a church; service.
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A (non-Christian) religion; a religious group.
* 2007 , Scott A. Merriman, Religion and the Law in America ,
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*:Thenne after this lady was delyuerd and chirched / there came a knyghte vnto her / his name was sire Bromel la pleche / the whiche was a grete lord and he hadde loued that lady longe / and he euermore desyred her to wedde her / and soo by no meane she coude putte hym of
*1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, page 36:
*:Nor did it [the Church] accept that the woman should stay indoors until she had been churched .
(label) To educate someone religiously, as in in a church.
(countable) A Christian house of worship; a building where religious services take place.
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Christians collectively seen as a single spiritual community; Christianity.
* Acts 20:28, New International Version:
(countable) A local group of people who follow the same Christian religious beliefs, local or general.
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(countable) A particular denomination of Christianity.
(uncountable, countable, as bare noun) Christian worship held at a church; service.
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A (non-Christian) religion; a religious group.
* 2007 , Scott A. Merriman, Religion and the Law in America ,
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*:Thenne after this lady was delyuerd and chirched / there came a knyghte vnto her / his name was sire Bromel la pleche / the whiche was a grete lord and he hadde loued that lady longe / and he euermore desyred her to wedde her / and soo by no meane she coude putte hym of
*1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, page 36:
*:Nor did it [the Church] accept that the woman should stay indoors until she had been churched .
(label) To educate someone religiously, as in in a church.
In surname terms the difference between church and church
is that church is while church is .In used with "the"|lang=en terms the difference between church and church
is that church is a specific church (christian religious denomination), such as the church of england or the catholic church while church is a specific church (christian religious denomination), such as the church of england or the catholic church.As proper nouns the difference between church and church
is that church is while church is .church
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Alternative forms
* churche (obsolete)Noun
- There is a lovely little church in the valley.
- This building used to be a church before being converted into a library.
- These worshippers make up the Church of Christ.
- Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood.
- The Church''' of England separated from the Roman Catholic '''Church in 1534.
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- Among these, the church must investigate fundemental questions,
- She goes to a Wiccan church down the road.
Usage notes
* Several senses of church are routinely used in prepositional phrases as a bare noun, without a determiner or article. This is like (home) and unlike (house).Synonyms
* (building) chapel (small church), kirk (Scotland) * (group of worshipers) congregationHypernyms
* (religious group) religionCoordinate terms
* mosque, synagogue, temple, gurdwara, hof, fire temple, circle, mandir, jinja, House of Worship, monasteryDerived terms
(church) * Anglican Church * Byzantine Church * broad church * Catholic Church * church affiliation * church bell * church crawler * Church Latin * churchgoer * church-going * church hat * church hop * Churchianity * church key * churchless * churchlike * churchly * churchman * church mode * churchmouse * church music * Church of England * Church of Rome * Church of Scotland * churchperson * church planter/churchplanter * church roll * church school * church service * Church Slavonic * church state * church triumphant * churchward * churchwoman * churchy * churchyard * church year * collegiate church * Congregational church * established church * Eastern Church * Eastern Orthodox Church * free church * Greek Church * Greek Catholic Church * Greek Orthodox Church * High Church * Latin Church * LDS church * Low Church * Lutheran Church * Maronite Church * mega-church/megachurch * New Church * Orthodox Church * Orthodox Catholic Church * Oriental Church * Oriental Orthodox Churches * parish church * particular Church * Roman Catholic Church * union church * Western ChurchVerb
(es)Derived terms
* churching of womenSee also
* (selected ecclesiastical terms) * abbe * abbey * basilica * cathedral * ecclesiastical * Eucharist * house of worship * Kingdom Hall (qualifier, Jehovah's Witness) * liturgy * mass * mission * mosque (Muslim) * pastor * priory * rector * religious * religion * sermon * synagogue (Jewish) * temple (non-Christian) * vicar * worship serviceStatistics
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English
Alternative forms
* churche (obsolete)Noun
- There is a lovely little church in the valley.
- This building used to be a church before being converted into a library.
- These worshippers make up the Church of Christ.
- Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood.
- The Church''' of England separated from the Roman Catholic '''Church in 1534.
page 313
- Among these, the church must investigate fundemental questions,
- She goes to a Wiccan church down the road.
