单词 | mother church |
释义 | mother churchnoun1 archaic : a parish church the mother churches … and rural chapels in the late Saxon and early Norman periods Bulletin of Institute of Historical Research 2 : the principal church of a locality or land specifically : a cathedral or a metropolitan church the mother church … which no visitor to these parts should fail to see T. I. Ellis 3 : the original church from which others have sprung the mother church of Unitarianism in America Leo Pfeffer 4 : the original church or communion in which a person has been nurtured returning to his mother church, he died in obscurity K. S. Latourette |
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