a building for public Christian worship
religious institution, building
Cases of word usage
1) a main passage in a church (aisle)
2) a public announcement in church that two people are to be married (banns)
3) (an instance of) the Christian ceremony of touching a person with, or putting a person in, water, to show that he or she is accepted as a member of the church (baptism)
4) an apparatus for blowing or forcing air into something e.g. a fire, an organ in a church (bellows)
5) a Christian clergyman of high rank who organizes the work of the Church in a city or district (bishop)
6) a church law (canon)
7) church clergyman (cantor)
8) the main Church in a diocese (cathedral)
9) the teaching, beliefs etc of the Roman Catholic Church (Catholicism)
10) the eastern part of a church round the alter, used by the priest(s) and choir (chancel)