church

A Christian house of worship; a building where Christian religious services take place.

There is a lovely little church in the valley.

This building used to be a church before being converted into a library.

Christians collectively seen as a single spiritual community; Christianity; Christendom.

These worshippers make up the Church of Christ.

Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood.

A local group of people who follow the same Christian religious beliefs, local or general.

Many young people find their only role models of family life in church.

He got the message and was in church the next Sunday. We need to stay in church with the fellowship of others in order to keep the fire of faith burning brightly.

A particular denomination of Christianity.

The Church of England separated from the Roman Catholic Church in 1534.

Christian worship held at a church; service.

Pastors complained that they were not allowed enough authority in church, with women exercising too much informal control.

Some people are always saying, "Oh, you have too much church." You never get too much church. I go to church every day.

To conduct a religious service for (a woman after childbirth, or a newly married couple).

Thenne after this lady was delyuerd and chirched / there came a knyghte vnto her / his name was sire Bromel la pleche / the whiche was a grete lord and he hadde loued that lady longe / and he euermore desyred her to wedde her / and soo by no meane she coude putte hym of

Nor did it [the Church] accept that the woman should stay indoors until she had been churched.

To educate someone religiously, as in a church.

Used to express strong agreement.

– These burritos are the best! – Church!