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church | tabernacle |

As nouns the difference between church and tabernacle

is that church is a Christian house of worship; a building where religious services take place while tabernacle is any temporary dwelling, a hut, tent, booth.

As a verb church

is to conduct a religious service for (a woman) after childbirth.

As a proper noun Church

is {{surname}.

church

English

Alternative forms

* churche (obsolete)

Noun

  • (countable) A Christian house of worship; a building where religious services take place.
    • There is a lovely little church in the valley.
    This building used to be a church before being converted into a library.
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  • Christians collectively seen as a single spiritual community; Christianity.
    • These worshippers make up the Church of Christ.
  • * Acts 20:28, New International Version:
    • Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood.
  • (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.
    • The Church''' of England separated from the Roman Catholic '''Church in 1534.
  • (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 , page 313
    • 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) congregation

    Hypernyms

    * (religious group) religion

    Coordinate terms

    * mosque, synagogue, temple, gurdwara, hof, fire temple, circle, mandir, jinja, House of Worship, monastery

    Derived 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 Church

    Verb

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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.

    • Derived terms

    * churching of women

    See 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 service

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    tabernacle

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • any temporary dwelling, a hut, tent, booth.
  • (Bible) The portable tent used before the construction of the temple, where the shekinah (presence of God) was believed to dwell.
  • * 1611 , (King James Version), Exodus 40:33–38:
    • So Moses finished the work. Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle'. And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of the LORD filled the '''tabernacle'''. And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys: But if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up. For the cloud of the LORD was upon the ' tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.
  • (by extension) The Jewish Temple at Jerusalem (as continuing the functions of the earlier tabernacle).
  • Any portable shrine used in heathen or idolatrous worship
  • A sukkah, the booth or 'tabernacle' used during the Jewish Feast of Sukkot.
  • A small ornamented cupboard or box used for the reserved sacrament of the Eucharist, normally located in an especially prominent place in a Roman Catholic church.
  • * 1997 , Catechism of the Catholic Church, Part II, Section 1183:
    • The tabernacle' is to be situated "in churches in a most worthy place with the greatest honor." The dignity, placing, and security of the Eucharistic ' tabernacle should foster adoration before the Lord really present in the Blessed Sacrament of the altar.
  • (US) A temporary place of worship, especially a tent, for a tent meeting, as with a venue for revival meetings.
  • * (rfdate) Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry , Chapter 13:
    • It was over these innocent necessary precautions that the local committees always showed their meanness. They liked giving over only one contribution to the evangelist, but they wanted nothing said about it till they themselves had been taken care of--till the rent of the hall or the cost of building a tabernacle , the heat, the lights, the advertising, and other expenses had been paid.
  • (by extension) Any house of worship; (used especially of Mormon churches).
  • (figuratively) Any abode or dwelling place, or especially the human body as the temporary dwelling place of the soul, or life.
  • (nautical) A hinged device allowing for the easy folding of a mast 90 degrees from perpendicular, as for transporting the boat on a trailer, or passing under a bridge.

    • Derived terms

    * tabernacular * tin tabernacle