Usually means: Place of worship for Christians.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word church:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. Church, church: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Church, church, the Church: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. church: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. church: Collins English Dictionary
  5. church: Vocabulary.com
  6. Church, Church, church, church: Wordnik
  7. church, the Church: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Church, church: Wiktionary
  9. church: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. church: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. church: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. church: Dictionary.com
  13. church: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. church: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Church (Alison Wonderland song), Church (Christianity), Church (Galantis album), Church (Liverpool ward), Church (Red vs. Blue), Church (Sefton ward), Church (T-Pain song), Church (album), Church (building), Church (congregation), Church (denomination), Church (disambiguation), Church (programming language), Church (sociology of religion), Church (song), Church (surname), Church, The Church (Mr. Oizo album), The Church (band), The Church (film), The Church, The church, .church: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Church: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. church: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. church: Rhymezone
  19. church: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. church: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. CHURCH: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. Church: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. church: Free Dictionary
  24. church: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Church, church: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. Church: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. church: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Church (Christianity), Church: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Church (Christianity), church: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  3. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Encyclopedia of the Orient (No longer online)
  5. church: Idioms

Religion (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Church: Easton Bible
  2. Religious Tolerance (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)
  4. Church: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  5. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. church: Archaeology Wordsmith

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. church, church, church: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. church: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Church (fortified): Dictionary of Military Architecture

(Note: See churching as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) A Christian house of worship; a building where Christian religious services take place.
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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