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单词 kirk
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kirk

(kɜːʳk)
Word forms: plural kirks
1. countable noun
A kirk is a church.
[Scottish]
...the eighteenth-century kirk across the road.
2. proper noun
The Kirk is the Church of Scotland, the main Protestant church in Scotland.
[Scottish]
...ministers of the Kirk.

kirk in British English

(kɜːk, Scottish kɪrk)
noun
1.  a Scot word for church
2. 
a Scottish church
Word origin
C12: from Old Norse kirkja, from Old English cirice church

Kirk in British English 1

(kɜːk, Scottish kɪrk)
noun
the Kirk

Kirk in British English 2

(kɜːk)
noun
Norman. 1923–74, prime minister of New Zealand (1972–74)

kirk in American English

(kɜrk; Scottish kɪʀk)
noun
Scottish and North England
a church
Idioms:
the Kirk
Word origin
Scot < ME kirke < OE cirice (infl. by ON kirkja): see church

Examples of 'kirk' in a sentence
kirk

`You robbed the kirk, Miss o'Brady, surely you haven't forgotten that.
Fraser, Christine Marion NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
It was a wonder the kirk hadn't fallen about his ears a long time ago!
Fraser, Christine Marion NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
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