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
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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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