HIGH CHURCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does High Church mean? 

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

1. a group in the Anglican Church that emphasizes the Catholic tradition (especially in sacraments and rituals and obedience to church authority)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIGH CHURCH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A group in the Anglican Church that emphasizes the Catholic tradition (especially in sacraments and rituals and obedience to church authority)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

High Anglican Church; High Church

Hypernyms ("High Church" is a kind of...):

religious order; religious sect; sect (a subdivision of a larger religious group)

Domain category:

church; church service (a service conducted in a house of worship)