| 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. | |
