CHRISTIAN CHURCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Christian Church mean? 

• CHRISTIAN CHURCH (noun)
  The noun CHRISTIAN CHURCH has 2 senses:

1. one of the groups of Christians who have their own beliefs and forms of worship

2. a Protestant church that accepts the Bible as the only source of true Christian faith and practices baptism by immersion

  Familiarity information: CHRISTIAN CHURCH used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHRISTIAN CHURCH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of the groups of Christians who have their own beliefs and forms of worship

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Christian church; church

Hypernyms ("Christian church" is a kind of...):

faith; organized religion; religion (an institution to express belief in a divine power)

Meronyms (members of "Christian church"):

Christian (a religious person who believes Jesus is the Christ and who is a member of a Christian denomination)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Christian church"):

Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Church; Armenian Church (an independent Christian church established in Armenia since 300; was influenced by both Roman and Byzantine traditions)

Catholic Church (any of several churches claiming to have maintained historical continuity with the original Christian Church)

Nestorian Church (a Christian Church in the Middle East that followed Nestorianism; there is still a small Nestorian Church in Iraq)

Coptic Church (the ancient Christian church of Egypt)

Protestant; Protestant Church (the Protestant churches and denominations collectively)

Unification Church (a Christian church (with some Buddhist elements) founded in 1954 by Sun Myung Moon and known for staging mass weddings and other communal activities)

Holonyms ("Christian church" is a part of...):

Christendom; Christianity (the collective body of Christians throughout the world and history (found predominantly in Europe and the Americas and Australia))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A Protestant church that accepts the Bible as the only source of true Christian faith and practices baptism by immersion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Christian Church; Disciples of Christ

Hypernyms ("Christian Church" is a kind of...):

Protestant denomination (group of Protestant congregations)