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.
shrine
1. 名詞. 聖堂。
2. 名詞. 聖地。
3. 名詞. （神道の）神社。
Shinto shrine
shrine
1. n. A holy or sacred place dedicated to a specific deity, ancestor, hero, martyr, saint, or similar figure of awe and respect, at which said figure is venerated or worshipped.
2. n. A case, box, or receptacle, especially one in which are deposited sacred relics, as the bones of a saint.
3. n. A place or object hallowed from its history or associations.
a shrine of art
4. v. To enshrine; to place reverently, as if in a shrine.
basilica
basilica
1. n. (architecture) A Christian church building having a nave with a semicircular apse, side aisles, a narthex and a clerestory.
2. n. A Roman Catholic church or cathedral with basilican status, a honorific status granted by the pope to recognize its historical, architectural, or sacramental importance.
3. n. (obsolete) An apartment provided in the houses of persons of importance, where assemblies were held for dispensing justice; hence, any large hall used for this purpose.
