HOUSE OF GOD

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does house of God mean? 

• HOUSE OF GOD (noun)
  The noun HOUSE OF GOD has 1 sense:

1. any building where congregations gather for prayer

  Familiarity information: HOUSE OF GOD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOUSE OF GOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any building where congregations gather for prayer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

house of God; house of prayer; house of worship; place of worship

Hypernyms ("house of God" is a kind of...):

building; edifice (a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "house of God"):

bethel (a house of worship (especially one for sailors))

chapel (a place of worship that has its own altar)

church; church building (a place for public (especially Christian) worship)

conventicle; meetinghouse (a building for religious assembly (especially Nonconformists, e.g., Quakers))

masjid; musjid ((Islam) a Muslim place of worship)

mosque ((Islam) a Muslim place of worship that usually has a minaret)

shrine (a place of worship hallowed by association with some sacred thing or person)

synagogue; tabernacle; temple ((Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation)

temple (place of worship consisting of an edifice for the worship of a deity)

 Context examples 

And now I can recall the picture of the grey old house of God rising calm before me, of a rook wheeling round the steeple, of a ruddy morning sky beyond.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)