different between church vs precentor

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

• præcentor (archaic)
• precentour (obsolete)

Etymology

From French précenteur, from Latin praecentor, from praecentus (“sung before”), from praecin? (“I sing before”).

Noun

precentor (plural precentors)

1. The person who leads songs or prayers in a cathedral, church, monastery, or synagogue and generally facilitates worship.

Related terms

• succentor