English word senses marked with topical category "Places of worship"

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Total 88 word senses

• God's house (Noun) Another place of worship.
• Kingdom Hall (Noun) A place where Jehovah's Witnesses meet for fellowship and worship.
• McChurch (Noun) A megachurch.
• Mithraeum (Noun) A grotto where the god Mithra was worshipped.
• abbey (Noun) A monastery or society of people, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy, which is headed by an abbot or abbess; also, the monastic building or buildings.
• adoratory (Noun) A room in a temple for the adoration of idols.
• altar (Noun) Any (real or notional) place where something is worshipped or sacrificed to.
• baptistry (Noun) A designated space within a church, or a separate room or building associated with a church, where a baptismal font is located, and consequently, where the sacrament of Christian baptism (via aspersion or affusion) is performed.
• basilica (Noun) A Roman Catholic church or cathedral with basilican status, an honorific status granted by the pope to recognize its historical, architectural, or sacramental importance.
• butsudan (Noun) A Buddhist shrine, comprising a wooden cabinet with doors that enclose and protect a religious icon.
• cathedral (Noun) The principal church serving as the office (and some as place of residence) of an archdiocese's/a diocese's archbishop/bishop which is symbolized by an episcopal throne known as the cathedra.
• chantry (Noun) A chapel set up for this purpose
• chapel (Noun) A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.
• chapel (Noun) A place of worship in another building or within a civil institution such as a larger church, airport, prison, monastery, school, etc.; often primarily for private prayer.
• chapel (Noun) A funeral home, or a room in one for holding funeral services.
• chapel (Adjective) Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.
• chapel (Verb) To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) to turn or make a circuit so as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing.
• chedi (Noun) A Thai Buddhist monument similar to a stupa.
• church (Noun) A Christian house of worship; a building where Christian religious services take place.
• circle (Noun) A traffic circle or roundabout.
• circle (Noun) An instrument of observation, whose graduated limb consists of an entire circle. When fixed to a wall in an observatory, it is called a mural circle; when mounted with a telescope on an axis and in Y's, in the plane of the meridian, a meridian or transit circle; when involving the principle of reflection, like the sextant, a reflecting circle; and when that of repeating an angle several times cont…
• circle (Verb) To travel in circles.
• cloister (Verb) To become a Roman Catholic religious.
• collegiate church (Noun) A Christian church, other than a cathedral, that has a chapter of canons and a dean or provost.
• convent (Noun) A religious community whose members live under strict observation of religious rules and self-imposed vows.
• convent (Noun) The buildings and pertaining surroundings in which such a community lives.
• convent (Noun) Synonym of nunnery, a female religious community and its residence.
• convent (Noun) A Christian school.
• convent (Noun) A gathering of people lasting several days for the purpose of discussing or working on topics previously selected.
• covenstead (Noun) A permanent circle or temple used to meet for rituals and to store religious items, often a mundane location.
• devale (Noun) A Hindu temple in Sri Lanka.
• eidgah (Noun) An open-air enclosure used for Eid prayers on certain special occasions.
• fane (Noun) A weathercock, a weather vane.
• feretory (Noun) An area of a church where relics are kept.
• friary (Adjective) Like a friar; relating to friars or to a convent.
• great house (Noun) A large, luxurious house or mansion, with a sizeable indoor and outdoor staff; especially of properties in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the United Kingdom and United States.
• grove (Noun) An orchard of fruit trees.
• grove (Noun) A place of worship.
• grove (Noun) A lodge of the Ancient Order of Druids.
• gurdwara (Noun) A Sikh place of worship.
• hounfour (Noun) A voodoo temple.
• house of worship (Noun) A religious edifice; a mosque, church, synagogue, temple, or similar place where believers go to practice their faith.
• kenesa (Noun) An Eastern European or Persian Karaite synagogue.
• kirk (Noun) A church.
• kovil (Noun) A Hindu temple built in a distinct style of Dravidian architecture.
• mandir (Noun) A Hindu temple.
• marabout (Noun) A Muslim holy man or mystic, especially in parts of North Africa.
• marae (Noun) A Polynesian sacred altar or enclosure.
• marae (Noun) The courtyard of a Maori wharenui or meeting-house and the buildings around it.
• martyry (Noun) A shrine in honor of a (usually religious, notably Christian) martyr, possibly at his grave.
• martyry (Noun) A shrine at a site which "bears witness" to a crucial religious event not related to a tomb.
• masjid (Noun) A mosque.
• minster (Noun) A cathedral church without any monastic connection.
• monastery (Noun) A residence for monks or others who have taken religious vows.
• mosque (Noun) A place of worship for Muslims, often having at least one minaret; a masjid.
• oracle (Noun) A shrine dedicated to some prophetic deity.
• oracle (Noun) A person such as a priest through whom the deity is supposed to respond with prophecy or advice.
• oracle (Noun) The sanctuary, or most holy place in the temple; also, the temple itself.
• oratory (Noun) A Roman Catholic chapel; a building for public or private worship that is not a parish church.
• pagoda (Noun) A religious building in South and Southeast Asia, especially a multi-storey tower erected as a Hindu or Buddhist temple.
• pagoda (Noun) A unit of currency, a coin made of gold or half gold, issued by various dynasties and colonial powers in southern India.
• pagoda (Noun) A pagoda sleeve.
• pantheon (Noun) All the gods of a particular people or religion, particularly the ancient Greek gods residing on Olympus, considered as a group.
• parish church (Noun) A church that serves as the religious centre of a parish; the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches.
• priory (Noun) A monastery or convent governed by a prior or prioress.
• sacellum (Noun) In Ancient Rome, a shrine open to the sky, sometimes used for sacrificial purposes, or in honor of the divine.
• sanctuary (Noun) A state of being protected, asylum.
• sekos (Noun) A sacred enclosure, sanctuary or cella in an ancient Greek temple.
• shrine (Noun) A holy or sacred place dedicated to a specific deity, ancestor, hero, martyr, saint, or similar figure of awe and respect, at which said figure is venerated or worshipped.
• shul (Noun) An Ashkenazi synagogue.
• speos (Noun) A tomb or temple carved from the solid rock
• spirit house (Noun) A small house- or temple-like structure mounted on a pillar at which offerings are made to a local deity or protective spirit.
• stave church (Noun) A wooden church with a medieval post and lintel construction.
• stupa (Noun) A dome-shaped Buddhist monument, used to house relics of the Lord Buddha.
• synagog (Noun) Alternative spelling of synagogue
• synagogue (Noun) A place of worship for Jews or Samaritans.
• tabernacle (Noun) Any portable shrine used in heathen or idolatrous worship.
• tabernacle (Noun) A temporary place of worship, especially a tent, for a tent meeting, as with a venue for revival meetings.
• tabernacle (Noun) Any house of worship, especially a Mormon meetinghouse.
• tabernacle (Noun) Any abode or dwelling place, or especially the human body as the temporary dwelling place of the soul, or life.
• tabernacle (Noun) A hinged device allowing for the easy folding of a mast 90 degrees from perpendicular, as for transporting the boat on a trailer, or passing under a bridge.
• takyeh (Noun) Synonym of husayniyya; alternative form of takya
• tekke (Noun) In Turkey, a dervish or Sufi lodge or place of worship; alternative form of takya.
• temple (Noun) A house of worship, especially:; Synonym of synagogue, especially a non-Orthodox synagogue.
• tin tab (Noun) A tin tabernacle.
• tin tabernacle (Noun) A church, usually nonconformist, clad in corrugated iron.
• vihara (Noun) A Buddhist monastery.
• wat (Noun) A Buddhist temple in Southeast Asia, especially those in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia.

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