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Definition of "church" []
- A building for public, especially Christian worship. (noun)
- The company of all Christians regarded as a spiritual body. (noun)
- A specified Christian denomination: the Presbyterian Church. (noun)
- A congregation. (noun)
- Public divine worship in a church; a religious service: goes to church at Christmas and Easter. (noun)
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Use "church" in a sentence
- "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."
- "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."
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