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Church: Definition and part of speech

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Church

  1. n. The aggregate of religious influences in a community; ecclesiastical influence, authority, etc.; as, to array the power of the church against some moral evil.
  2. n. A building set apart for Christian worship.
  3. n. A Jewish or heathen temple.
  4. n. A formally organized body of Christian believers worshiping together.
  5. n. A body of Christian believers, holding the same creed, observing the same rites, and acknowledging the same ecclesiastical authority; a denomination; as, the Roman Catholic church; the Presbyterian church.
  6. n. The collective body of Christians.
  7. n. Any body of worshipers; as, the Jewish church; the church of Brahm.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.