church
[zone: 1, ipm: 231.83]
Definitions
- the institution of the Christian religion
Examples
- With the creation of the state, it was desirable to build a separate church administration.
- Vatican City is governed by the Pope of the Catholic Church and is a form of absolute monarchy.
- A king recognises that the church is an equal or superior in the religious sphere; emperors do not.
- The Church of England, of which the monarch is the head, has its own legislative, judicial and executive structures.
- Unlike New England, whose official religion was Puritanism, Pennsylvania did not establish an official church.
Collocations
- Protestant [score: 10.01, freq: 109] (the Protestant church)
- established [score: 9.98, freq: 84] (the established church)
- Peter [score: 9.98, freq: 5] (in St. Peter's church)
- England [score: 9.94, freq: 163] (church of England)
- Catholic [score: 9.72, freq: 88] (of the Catholic church)
- Sophia [score: 9.71, freq: 28] (church of Sophia)
- Christian [score: 9.62, freq: 124] (Christian church)
- property [score: 9.54, freq: 39] (of church property)
- Peter [score: 9.32, freq: 28] (church of Peter)
- Greek [score: 9.27, freq: 89] (of the Greek church)
- build [score: 9.18, freq: 64] (build churches)
- bell [score: 9.16, freq: 13] (the church bells)
- Scotland [score: 9.01, freq: 25] (church of Scotland)
- Romish [score: 9, freq: 36] (the Romish church)
- Gallican [score: 8.96, freq: 34] (the Gallican church)
- Apostles [score: 8.95, freq: 15] (church of Apostles)
- Latin [score: 8.85, freq: 45] (Latin church)
- Armenian [score: 8.82, freq: 40] (the Armenian church)
- Reformed [score: 8.68, freq: 28] (the Dutch Reformed church)
- Dame [score: 8.66, freq: 12] (church of Dame)
- reform [score: 8.54, freq: 20] (reformed churches)
- Assumption [score: 8.42, freq: 10] (church of Assumption)
- parish [score: 8.42, freq: 24] (the parish church)
- Catholic [score: 8.26, freq: 31] (the Roman Catholic church)
- erect [score: 8.16, freq: 20] (church was erected)
- Irish [score: 8.13, freq: 36] (the Irish church)
- Sepulchre [score: 8.08, freq: 8] (church of Sepulchre)
- resurrection [score: 8.08, freq: 8] (church of resurrection)
- preferment [score: 8.08, freq: 5] (church preferments)
- Douglas [score: 8.07, freq: 9] (church of Douglas)
- attend [score: 8.02, freq: 23] (attend church)
- establishment [score: 8.01, freq: 11] (of the church establishment)
- Mary [score: 7.91, freq: 8] (church of Mary)
- land [score: 7.85, freq: 27] (the church lands)
- tower [score: 7.81, freq: 6] (from a church tower)
- music [score: 7.72, freq: 6] (melancholy church music)
- holy [score: 7.67, freq: 22] (the holy Church)
- found [score: 7.58, freq: 18] (churches were found)
- Dutch [score: 7.53, freq: 22] (Dutch church)
- papal [score: 7.53, freq: 15] (the papal church)
- visit [score: 7.43, freq: 16] (visiting the church)
- cathedral [score: 7.34, freq: 11] (in the cathedral church)
- orthodox [score: 7.24, freq: 12] (orthodox church)
- evangelical [score: 7.02, freq: 9] (Evangelical Armenian church)
- afflict [score: 6.98, freq: 6] (the afflicted church)
- consecrate [score: 6.92, freq: 6] (consecrate the Arian churches)
- Nestorian [score: 6.87, freq: 8] (the Nestorian church)
- convert [score: 6.73, freq: 6] (churches were converted into)
- service [score: 6.28, freq: 10] (the church service)
Thesaurus
- city [score: 0.262, freq: 15013]
- religion [score: 0.258, freq: 5758]
- house [score: 0.249, freq: 15016]
- kingdom [score: 0.245, freq: 7611]
- family [score: 0.242, freq: 9183]
- state [score: 0.234, freq: 21685]
- town [score: 0.231, freq: 7812]
- court [score: 0.231, freq: 9879]
- empire [score: 0.224, freq: 21781]
- nation [score: 0.224, freq: 15132]
- temple [score: 0.222, freq: 2367]
- province [score: 0.215, freq: 9133]
- palace [score: 0.215, freq: 5032]
- colony [score: 0.214, freq: 11028]
- society [score: 0.212, freq: 4308]
- country [score: 0.211, freq: 27816]
- republic [score: 0.207, freq: 3654]
- prince [score: 0.206, freq: 12311]
- party [score: 0.206, freq: 11219]
- monarchy [score: 0.206, freq: 4904]