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
- The church here spoken of [_in the church_] is the Church of Christ now under the New Testament: for, 1.
- It amused him to see himself going to church -- _to church_ -- to hear himself conversing on flowers and music with a young
- Its name is said to originate from a church built here by the Duns in 646, and in Flemish its name signifies the _church of the Duns_.
- English usage, especially when he substitutes congregation for church, and insists that the people understand by _church_ what they ought to understand.
- I am suggesting that the intention is to end "church weddings", meaning the end of marriage rites conducted in churches which the _church_ recognizes as religiously meaningful.
- Christians, such as the Anglican, or the Lutheran, or the Scottish, or any other church, in its aggregate character, to be _a church_, or a distinct branch of the Catholic Church.
- Gradually these important cities evolved into the residences of a supervising priest or bishop, the territory became known as a _bishopric_, and the church as a _cathedral church_.
- Last night I dreamed I went to a small church in the city, an accepting church it was filled with gays and lesbians and sympathetic str8s, many of the gay men I counted as new friends.
- Saviour would have the controversy between brother and brother to be terminated in a peculiar church, and that its judgment should be ultimately requested, he saith, _Tell the church_, not churches.
- And after he gives them this charge, "Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, over which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God," ver. 28; all were but _one flock, one church_.
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