ESTABLISHED CHURCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does established church mean? 

• ESTABLISHED CHURCH (noun)
  The noun ESTABLISHED CHURCH has 1 sense:

1. the church that is recognized as the official church of a nation

  Familiarity information: ESTABLISHED CHURCH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ESTABLISHED CHURCH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The church that is recognized as the official church of a nation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

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

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