CHURCH-STATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does church-state mean? 

• CHURCH-STATE (noun)
  The noun CHURCH-STATE has 1 sense:

1. a state ruled by religious authority

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHURCH-STATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state ruled by religious authority

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("church-state" is a kind of...):

theocracy (a political unit governed by a deity (or by officials thought to be divinely guided))