SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Second Vatican Council mean? 

• SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL (noun)
  The noun SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL has 1 sense:

1. the Vatican Council in 1962-1965 that abandoned the universal Latin liturgy and acknowledged ecumenism and made other reforms

  Familiarity information: SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL used as a noun is very rare.

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• SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL (noun)

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Meaning:

The Vatican Council in 1962-1965 that abandoned the universal Latin liturgy and acknowledged ecumenism and made other reforms

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Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Second Vatican Council; Vatican II

Hypernyms ("Second Vatican Council" is a kind of...):

Vatican Council (each of two councils of the Roman Catholic Church)