stations of the cross

Questions about stations of the cross

What is another word for stations of the cross?

It depends which stations of the cross you mean. In the sense “(Roman Catholic Church) a devotion consisting of fourteen prayers said before a series of fourteen pictures or carvings representing successive incidents during Jesus' passage from Pilate's house to his crucifixion at Calvary”, the synonyms are Stations. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of stations of the cross?

WordNet records no antonym for stations of the cross. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for stations of the cross come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of stations of the cross

• Full entry for stations of the crossAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for stations of the crossWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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