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noun

church

CHURCH/tʃɜːrtʃ/

A Christian community organized for worship.

The small stone building provides a place for the church to worship.

Small Christian stone church with cross and steeple.
Etymology

Old English cirice already named a place of Christian worship. Its probable connection with Greek “the Lord’s house” presents the building as a house belonging to God.

In context

Ben Maton - The Salisbury Organist3:48
inside this church it's calm it's peaceful the perfect atmosphere to explore an instrument which is accompanied worship here for more than a hundred years this is the Mason and Hamlin read organ
REEDISCOVERY: Secrets of the Harmonium

More examples

  • She joined the local church after moving.
  • The church organizes meals for families who need support.
  • They restored the church's old windows.

Forms

church · churches

churchyard noun — Ground surrounding a church

Similar words

chapel
Often a smaller worship building or room.
cathedral
The principal church associated with a bishop.