Engels Woord van de dag

church

kerk

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church

1. kerk

Engels > Engels

church

1. n. A Christian house of worship; a building where 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.

2. n. Christians collectively seen as a single spiritual community; Christianity.

These worshippers make up the Church of Christ.

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

4. n. A particular denomination of Christianity.

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

5. n. (as bare noun) Christian worship held at a church; service.

6. n. (informal) A (non-Christian) religion; a religious group.

She goes to a Wiccan church down the road.

7. n. (obsolete) assembly

8. v. (transitive, now historical) To conduct a religious service for (a woman after childbirth, or a newly married couple).

9. v. To educate someone religiously, as in in a church.

Nederlands > Engels

kerk

1. n-f. church, house of Christian worship

2. n-f. (occasionally capitalized) church, confessional religious organization

3. n-f. church, temple, non-Christian house of worship