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vihara
English
Etymology
Sanskrit ????? (vi-h?ra)
Noun
vihara (plural viharas)
- a Buddhistic monastery
Further reading
- vihara on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Hungarian
Etymology
vihar +? -a (possessive suffix)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?vi??r?]
- Hyphenation: vi?ha?ra
Noun
vihara
- third-person singular single-possession possessive of vihar
Declension
Pali
Alternative forms
Verb
vihara
- second-person singular imperative active of viharati (“to dwell”)
vihara From the web:
- vihara meaning
- vihara what does it mean
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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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- what church is in home alone
- what church is pictured below
- what church was found in the byzantine empire
- what churches are open
- what church season are we in
- what church should i go to
- what churches help with rent
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