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Definition of "prayer meeting" []

  • An evangelical service, especially one held on a weekday evening, in which the laypersons participate by singing, praying, or testifying their faith. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "prayer meeting" in a sentence
  • "This prayer meeting culminated in the formation of a Colored Methodist Society, which was organized in the boot-black cellar of Caleb Hyland."
  • "She preferred CNN, but they had passed the morning's event off in sixty seconds at the top of the hour and were now giving chapter and verse about a prayer meeting the president had presumed to intermix with international politics."
  • "And on Sunday night over there at Rock Springs Church they'd have a prayer meeting every Sunday night."