Definition of church

• n. - A building set apart for Christian worship.
• n. - A Jewish or heathen temple.
• n. - A formally organized body of Christian believers worshiping together.
• n. - A body of Christian believers, holding the same creed, observing the same rites, and acknowledging the same ecclesiastical authority; a denomination; as, the Roman Catholic church; the Presbyterian church.
• n. - The collective body of Christians.
• n. - Any body of worshipers; as, the Jewish church; the church of Brahm.
• n. - The aggregate of religious influences in a community; ecclesiastical influence, authority, etc.; as, to array the power of the church against some moral evil.
• v. t. - To bless according to a prescribed form, or to unite with in publicly returning thanks in church, as after deliverance from the dangers of childbirth; as, the churching of women.