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church
English
Alternative forms
- churche, chirche (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English chirche, from Old English ?iri?e (“church”), from Proto-West Germanic *kirik?, an early borrowing of Ancient Greek ???????? (kuriakón), neuter form of ???????? (kuriakós, “belonging to the lord”), from ?????? (kúrios, “ruler, lord”), from Proto-Indo-European *?ewH- (“to swell, spread out, be strong, prevail”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /t????t??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /t???t??/
- Rhymes: -??(?)t?
Noun
church (countable and uncountable, plural churches)
- (countable) A Christian house of worship; a building where Christian religious services take place. [from 9th c.]
- Christians collectively seen as a single spiritual community; Christianity. [from 9th c.]
- Acts 20:28, New International Version:
- Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood.
- Acts 20:28, New International Version:
- (countable) A local group of people who follow the same Christian religious beliefs, local or general. [from 9th c.]
- (countable) A particular denomination of Christianity. [from 9th c.]
- (uncountable, countable, as bare noun) Christian worship held at a church; service. [from 10th c.]
- (uncountable) Organized religion in general or a specific religion considered as a political institution.
- (informal) Any religious group. [from 16th c.]
- (obsolete) Assembly.
Usage notes
- Several senses of church are routinely used in prepositional phrases as a bare noun, without a determiner or article. This is like home and unlike house.
- (organized religion): Often capitalized as "(the) Church" without referring to a specific formal institution with that title.
Synonyms
- autem (obsolete, Britain, thieves’ cant)
- (building): chapel (small church), kirk (Scotland)
- (group of worshipers): congregation
Coordinate terms
- circle, fire temple, gurdwara, heiau, hof, House of Worship, jinja, mandir, monastery, mosque, synagogue, temple
Hypernyms
- (religious group): religion
- (house of worship): building
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Pages starting with “church”.
Related terms
Descendants
- ? Hindi: ???? (carc)
- Pijin: sios
- Tok Pisin: sios
Translations
Verb
church (third-person singular simple present churches, present participle churching, simple past and past participle churched)
- (transitive, Christianity, now historical) To conduct a religious service for (a woman after childbirth, or a newly married couple). [from 15th c.]
- 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, page 36:
- Nor did it [the Church] accept that the woman should stay indoors until she had been churched.
- 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, page 36:
- (transitive) To educate someone religiously, as in in a church.
Translations
Interjection
church
- (slang) Expressing strong agreement.
- Synonym: preach
- - These burritos are the best!
- - Church!
See also
- Appendix:Ecclesiastical terms
References
- church on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Middle English
Noun
church
- Alternative form of chirche
church From the web:
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corban
English
Alternative forms
- korban
- qorban
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ?????? (korbân), from Hebrew ????? \ ????????? (korbán, “offering, sacrifice”). Found in the Bible at Mark 7.11. Doublet of Qurbana.
Noun
corban (plural corbans or corbanot or corbanoth)
- An offering to God, especially in fulfilment of a vow.
- 1901, The Bible, American Standard Version, 7:11
- but ye say, If a man shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is Corban, that is to say, Given [to God];
- 1901, The Bible, American Standard Version, 7:11
- An alms basket; a vessel to receive gifts of charity; a treasury of the church, where offerings are deposited.
Usage notes
- In the Old Testament, the Hebrew word is usually translated oblation, as in Numbers xviii. 9, xxxi. 50.
- The traditionists laid down that a man might interdict himself by vow, not only from using for himself, but from giving to another, or receiving from him, some particular object, whether of food or any other kind. A person might thus exempt himself from assisting parents in distress, under plea of corban.
Translations
Anagrams
- Branco, Carbon, bancor, barcon, carbon
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ?????? (korbân), from Hebrew ????????? (qorb?n, “offering, sacrifice”).
Noun
corb?n m (indeclinable)
- gift, votive offering
References
- corban in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
corban From the web:
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