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▸ noun: Christians collectively seen as a single spiritual community; Christianity; Christendom.
▸ noun: (countable) A local group of people who follow the same Christian religious beliefs, local or general.
▸ noun: (countable) A particular denomination of Christianity.
▸ noun: (uncountable, countable, as bare noun) Christian worship held at a church; service.
▸ noun: (uncountable) Organized religion in general or a specific religion considered as a political institution.
▸ noun: (informal) Any religious group or place of worship; a temple.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Assembly.
▸ verb: (transitive, Christianity, now historical) To conduct a religious service for (a woman after childbirth, or a newly married couple).
▸ verb: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 36:
▸ verb: (transitive) To educate someone religiously, as in in a church.
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ noun: (used with "the") A specific church (Christian religious denomination), such as the Church of England or the Catholic Church.
▸ noun: (used with "the") Christianity conceptualized as a single church, irrespective of its various denominations; Christendom.
▸ noun: A village in Hyndburn borough, near Accrington, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD7429).
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Allamakee County, Iowa, United States.
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church service,
Christianity,
Christian Church,
church building,
congregation,
churche,
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chapel,
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Catholic,
Protestant,
Orthodox,
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Lutheran,
Methodist,
Episcopalian,
Pentecostal,
Presbyterian,
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