church
Part of speech: noun
verb
intj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: From Middle English chirche, from Old English ċiriċe (“church”), from Proto-West Germanic *kirikā, an early borrowing of Ancient Greek κυριακόν (kuriakón), neuter form of κυριακός (kuriakós, “belonging to the lord”), from κύριος (kúrios, “ruler, lord”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁- (“to swell, spread out, be strong, prevail”). Doublet of kirk.
Additional etymological information
 For vowel evolution, see bury. Ancient Greek κυριακόν (kuriakón) was used of houses of Christian worship since circa 300 CE, especially in the East, though it was less common in this sense than ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía, “congregation”) or βασιλική (basilikḗ, “royal thing”). An example of the direct Greek-to-Germanic progress of many Christian words, possibly via the Goths; it was probably used by West Germanic people in their pre-Christian period. Cognate with Scots kirk (“church”), West Frisian tsjerke (“church”), Saterland Frisian Säärke (“church”), Dutch kerk (“church”), German Kirche (“church”), Danish kirke (“church”), Swedish kyrka (“church”), Norwegian Bokmål kirke, Norwegian Nynorsk kyrkje (“church”), and Faroese and Icelandic kirkja (“church”). Also picked up by Slavic, via Old High German chirihha (compare Old Church Slavonic црькꙑ (crĭky), Bulgarian църква (cǎrkva), Russian це́рковь (cérkovʹ)). Romance and Celtic languages use descendants of Latin ecclēsia.
Inflected forms:
form: churches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: churche
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: chirche
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: chu'ch
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: chuuch
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: chuhch
pos: noun
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
form: churches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: churching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: churched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: churched
pos: verb
tags: past
form: churche
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: chirche
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: chu'ch
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: chuuch
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: chuhch
pos: verb
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
form: churche
pos: intj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: chirche
pos: intj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: chu'ch
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: chuuch
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: chuhch
pos: intj
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
Senses:
gloss: A Christian house of worship; a building where Christian religious services take place.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: There is a lovely little church in the valley.
This building used to be a church before being converted into a library.
He got the message and was in church the next Sunday. We need to stay in church with the fellowship of others in order to keep the fire of faith burning brightly.
gloss: Christians collectively seen as a single spiritual community; Christianity; Christendom.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: These worshippers make up the Church of Christ.
Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood.
gloss: A local group of people who follow the same Christian religious beliefs, local or general.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Many young people find their only role models of family life in church.
He got the message and was in church the next Sunday. We need to stay in church with the fellowship of others in order to keep the fire of faith burning brightly.
As they actively get involved in ministry, lay ministry becomes vigorous, and new believers will settle in church with more ease.
she had very many adults in church with whom she could talk about issues in life.
Ruthie had left the church disappointed , reluctant to give up the idea that she was chosen by God to become a saint . But within a month she had sinned by lying , masturbating , and coveting Sarah 130 • Beu Marshall.
gloss: A particular denomination of Christianity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The Church of England separated from the Roman Catholic Church in 1534.
gloss: Christian worship held at a church; service.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Pastors complained that they were not allowed enough authority in church, with women exercising too much informal control.
Some people are always saying, "Oh, you have too much church." You never get too much church. I go to church every day.
the learned women will be qualified to lead in church with equal grace and equal insight and equal gifts.
gloss: Organized religion in general or a specific religion considered as a political institution.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Many constitutions enshrine the separation of church and state.
But in Muslim countries, Church and State are one indissolubly, and until the very essence of Islam passes away, that unity cannot be relaxed. The law of the land, too, is, in theory, the law of the Church.
Because the pan-Buddhist movement was heavily supported by the Japanese in Inner Mongolia, the Buddhist church, already under attack by Soviet-backed antireligion campaigns in Outer Mongolia, was further damaged […]
The church was tighening up on matters sexual. Until the middle of the tenth century it had been quite routine for priests to be married.
The secular absolutist model is based on a strict separation between church and state.
gloss: Any religious group or place of worship; a temple.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: She goes to a Wiccan church down the road.
Among these, the church must investigate fundemental questions, […]
gloss: Assembly.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: To conduct a religious service for (a woman after childbirth, or a newly married couple).
pos: verb
tags: historical
transitive
examples: 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
Nor did it [the Church] accept that the woman should stay indoors until she had been churched.
gloss: To educate someone religiously, as in a church.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: “we’re mighty glad to have you all here. Don’t pay no ‘tention to Lula, she’s contentious because Reverend Sykes threatened to church her. She’s a troublemaker from way back, got fancy ideas an’ haughty ways—we’re mighty glad to have you all.”
gloss: Used to express strong agreement.
pos: intj
tags: slang
examples: – These burritos are the best! – Church!
Synonyms: autem
church
congregation
Related words: church affiliation
church bell
church crawler
church hat
church hop
church key
Church Latin
church mode
church music
church planter
church roll
church school
church service
church spire
church state
church tower
church triumphant
church year
collegiate church
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Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class VI § 983a. Orthodoxy
Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/39 § High Church
Derived words: and the church says amen
antechurch
antichurch
at church every time the doors are open
at church every time the doors swing open
cathedral church
champ
champing
chopchurch
Christchurch
Church Age
churchal
church-ale
churchane
Church Assembly
Church Brampton
Church Broughton
church council
Church Cross
church crown
churchdom
church-door
church door
Church Eaton
Church End
Churcher
Church Father
Church Fenton
churchful
Churchgate
church giggle
church giggles
church-goer
churchgoer
churchgoing
church-going
churchhouse
church hurt
Churchianity
churchical
churchify
Churchill
churching
churchish
churchism
churchite
Church Knowle
Church Lawton
churchless
churchlet
churchlike
churchling
church-load
churchload
churchly
churchman
churchmate
Church Minshull
churchmouse
church of ease
church organ
church organist
Church People
churchperson
churchplanter
church planting
church rate
church-ridden
churchscot
churchship
church steeples
Church Stretton
church tax
church text
Churchtown
churchtown
churchward
churchwarden
churchwards
churchway
churchwear
churchwide
Church Wilne
church windows
churchwoman
churchwork
churchy
church-yard
churchyard
clip the church
cowboy church
cyberchurch
darken a church door
dechurch
dischurch
extrachurch
Falls Church
fringe church
hall church
high church
high-church
Holy Church
in church every time the doors are open
Indian Orthodox Church
interchurch
like a fart in church
low church
low-church
McChurch
mega-church
megachurch
mother church
nervous as a whore in church
newchurch
Newchurch
nonchurch
overchurched
parachurch
parochial church council
patriarchal church
Peterchurch
poor as a church mouse
prochurch
quiet as a church mouse
rechurch
Shenley Church End
Southchurch
South Church
Station-Church Site
stave church
storefront church
superchurch
sweat like a hooker in church
sweat like a whore in church
titular church
unchurch
underchurched
Whitechurch
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