church


Definition: Meaning of, church in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / tʃəːtʃ /

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church churches
  1. [countable] a building where Christians go to worship [↪  cathedral]
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  2. [uncountable] the religious ceremonies in a church
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  3. [countable] also Church one of the separate groups within the Christian religion
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  4. [singular, uncountable] the institution of the Christian religion, and all the priests and other ministers who are part of it
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church used in phrases

  • Anglican Church (noun)
    1. and all other churches in other countries that share its beliefs church service the national church of England ; has its see in Canterbury and the sovereign as its temporal head
  • Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Church (noun)
    1. an independent Christian church established in Armenia since 300; was influenced by both Roman and Byzantine traditions
  • Armenian Church (noun)
    1. an independent Christian church established in Armenia since 300; was influenced by both Roman and Byzantine traditions
  • Arminian Church (noun)
    1. the Protestant denomination adhering to the views of Jacobus Arminius
  • Baptist Church (noun)
    1. any of various evangelical Protestant churches that believe in the baptism of voluntary believers
  • Byzantine Church (noun)
    1. the Catholic Church as it existed in the Byzantine Empire
  • Catholic Church (noun)
    1. any of several churches claiming to have maintained historical continuity with the original Christian Church
  • Christian Church (noun)
    1. a Protestant church that accepts the Bible as the only source of true Christian faith and practices baptism by immersion
  • Christian church (noun)
    1. one of the groups of Christians who have their own beliefs and forms of worship
  • Church Father (noun)
    1. Christianity any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom
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