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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)

1. (countable) A Christian house of worship; a building where Christian religious services take place. [from 9th c.]
2. 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.

3. (countable) A local group of people who follow the same Christian religious beliefs, local or general. [from 9th c.]
4. (countable) A particular denomination of Christianity. [from 9th c.]

5. (uncountable, countable, as bare noun) Christian worship held at a church; service. [from 10th c.]
6. (uncountable) Organized religion in general or a specific religion considered as a political institution.
7. (informal) Any religious group. [from 16th c.]
8. (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)

1. (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.

2. (transitive) To educate someone religiously, as in in a church.

Translations

Interjection

church

1. (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

1. Alternative form of chirche

English

Alternative forms

• parvise

Etymology

From Middle English parvis, parvise, parvys, borrowed from Old French parvis, parevis, from Latin parad?sus, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (parádeisos), ultimately from Proto-Iranian *paridayjah. Used in the Middle Ages to describe the court in front of St Peter's in Rome, and later similar courts in front of other churches. Doublet of paradise.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p??.v?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?p??.v?s/

Noun

parvis (plural parvises)

1. An enclosed courtyard in front of a building, especially a cathedral.
2. A portico surrounding such a space.
3. The porch of a church, or the room over it.

Danish

Etymology

From par (“pair”) +? -vis (“-wise”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?parvi??s/, [?p????vi??s]

Adjective

parvis (neuter parvis or parvist, plural and definite singular attributive parvise)

1. (rare) pairwise

Adverb

parvis

1. pairwise, in pairs, two by two

Synonyms

• (adverb): parvist

Estonian

Noun

parvis

1. inessive plural of parv

French

Etymology

From Old French parvis, parevis, from Late Latin parad?sus, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (parádeisos), ultimately from Proto-Iranian *paridayjah. Doublet of paradis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa?.vi/

Noun

parvis m (plural parvis)

1. (historical) parvis
2. forecourt, square

Further reading

• “parvis” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• privas

Latin

Adjective

parv?s

1. dative masculine plural of parvus
2. ablative masculine plural of parvus
3. dative feminine plural of parvus
4. ablative feminine plural of parvus
5. dative neuter plural of parvus
6. ablative neuter plural of parvus

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From par +? -vis

Adverb

parvis

1. in pairs

References

• “parvis” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From par +? -vis

Adverb

parvis

1. in pairs

References

• “parvis” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

par +? -vis

Adjective

parvis (not comparable)

1. pairwise

Declension

Adverb

parvis (not comparable)

1. pairwise, in pairs, two by two