单词 | church |
释义 | Word Frequency church(tʃɜːtʃ) noun 1. a building designed for public forms of worship, esp Christian worship 2. an occasion of public worship 3. the clergy as distinguished from the laity 4. (usually capital) institutionalized forms of religion as a political or social force conflict between Church and State 5. (usually capital) the collective body of all Christians 6. (often capital) a particular Christian denomination or group of Christian believers 7. (often capital) the Christian religion 8. (in Britain) the practices or doctrines of the Church of England and similar denominations Compare chapel (sense 4b) ▶ Related adjective: ecclesiasticalverb (transitive) 9. to bring (someone, esp a woman after childbirth) to church for special ceremonies 10. US to impose church discipline upon Word origin Old English cirice, from Late Greek kurikon, from Greek kuriakon (dōma) the Lord's (house), from kuriakos of the master, from kurios master, from kuros powerWord Frequency Church(tʃɜːtʃ) noun Charlotte. born 1986, Welsh soprano, who made her name with the album Voice of an Angel (1998) when she was 12 |
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