church
IPA: tʃˈɝtʃ
noun
- (countable) A Christian house of worship; a building where Christian religious services take place.
- Christians collectively seen as a single spiritual community; Christianity; Christendom.
- (countable) A local group of people who follow the same Christian religious beliefs, local or general.
- (countable) A particular denomination of Christianity.
- (uncountable, countable, as bare noun) Christian worship held at a church; service.
- (uncountable) Organized religion in general or a specific religion considered as a political institution.
- (informal) Any religious group.
- (obsolete) Assembly.
- A surname.
- (used with "the") A specific church (Christian religious denomination), such as the Church of England or the Catholic Church.
- (used with "the") Christianity conceptualized as a single church, irrespective of its various denominations; Christendom.
- A village in Hyndburn borough, near Accrington, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD7429).
- An unincorporated community in Allamakee County, Iowa, United States.
verb
- (transitive, Christianity, now historical) To conduct a religious service for (a woman after childbirth, or a newly married couple).
- 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 36:
- (transitive) To educate someone religiously, as in in a church.
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Examples of "church" in Sentences
- They wanted to deride the church and religion.
- The mason believed in the disestablishment of the church.
- The altar of the church is believed to be gilded with silver.
- The state church isn't necessarily the religion of the majority.
- The building of the evangelical rectory is joined to the church.
- The mosaic is believed to have constituted the floor of the church.
- Immigration is not the only explanation of the building of churches.
- The buildings surrounding the church became a hospice and orphanage.
- Learn the language and adapt the Church of the East as your religion.
- The church building became the church hall for the Church of Ascension.
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