LORD'S SUPPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lord's Supper mean? 

• LORD'S SUPPER (noun)
  The noun LORD'S SUPPER has 2 senses:

1. a Christian sacrament commemorating the Last Supper by consecrating bread and wine

2. the traditional Passover supper of Jesus with his disciples on the eve of his crucifixion

  Familiarity information: LORD'S SUPPER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LORD'S SUPPER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Christian sacrament commemorating the Last Supper by consecrating bread and wine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

Eucharist; Eucharistic liturgy; Holy Eucharist; Holy Sacrament; Liturgy; Lord's Supper; sacrament of the Eucharist

Hypernyms ("Lord's Supper" is a kind of...):

sacrament (a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction)

Meronyms (parts of "Lord's Supper"):

Offertory (the part of the Eucharist when bread and wine are offered to God)

Communion; Holy Communion; manduction; sacramental manduction (the act of participating in the celebration of the Eucharist)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The traditional Passover supper of Jesus with his disciples on the eve of his crucifixion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

Last Supper; Lord's Supper

Hypernyms ("Lord's Supper" is a kind of...):

Passover supper; Seder ((Judaism) the ceremonial dinner on the first night (or both nights) of Passover)