"parachurch" meaning in All languages combined

See parachurch on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: parachurches [plural]
Etymology: para- + church Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|para|church}} para- + church Head templates: {{en-noun}} parachurch (plural parachurches)
  1. A Christian organization that engages in social welfare and evangelism without restricting itself to a specific religious denomination. Wikipedia link: parachurch
    Sense id: en-parachurch-en-noun-fNa6Zj4t Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with para-

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for parachurch meaning in All languages combined (1.1kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "para",
        "3": "church"
      },
      "expansion": "para- + church",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "para- + church",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "parachurches",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "parachurch (plural parachurches)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with para-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A Christian organization that engages in social welfare and evangelism without restricting itself to a specific religious denomination."
      ],
      "id": "en-parachurch-en-noun-fNa6Zj4t",
      "links": [
        [
          "Christian",
          "Christian"
        ],
        [
          "organization",
          "organization"
        ],
        [
          "social",
          "social"
        ],
        [
          "welfare",
          "welfare"
        ],
        [
          "evangelism",
          "evangelism"
        ],
        [
          "restrict",
          "restrict"
        ],
        [
          "religious",
          "religious"
        ],
        [
          "denomination",
          "denomination"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "parachurch"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "parachurch"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "para",
        "3": "church"
      },
      "expansion": "para- + church",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "para- + church",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "parachurches",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "parachurch (plural parachurches)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms prefixed with para-"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A Christian organization that engages in social welfare and evangelism without restricting itself to a specific religious denomination."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Christian",
          "Christian"
        ],
        [
          "organization",
          "organization"
        ],
        [
          "social",
          "social"
        ],
        [
          "welfare",
          "welfare"
        ],
        [
          "evangelism",
          "evangelism"
        ],
        [
          "restrict",
          "restrict"
        ],
        [
          "religious",
          "religious"
        ],
        [
          "denomination",
          "denomination"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "parachurch"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "parachurch"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-31 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (91e95e7 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.