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SERVICE BOOK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does service book mean? 

SERVICE BOOK (noun)
  The noun SERVICE BOOK has 1 sense:

1. a book setting forth the forms of church serviceplay

  Familiarity information: SERVICE BOOK used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SERVICE BOOK (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A book setting forth the forms of church service

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("service book" is a kind of...):

religious text; religious writing; sacred text; sacred writing (writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity)

Instance hyponyms:

Book of Common Prayer (the Anglican service book of the Church of England; has had several revisions since the Reformation and is widely admired for the dignity and beauty of its language)


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