church

1. 1.

   perform a special church rite or service for

   “church a woman after childbirth”

   Broaderperform

Other forms of church

plural

churches·

past tense

churched·

present participle

churching·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about church

What does church mean?

church means "one of the groups of Christians who have their own beliefs and forms of worship". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in church?

church has 1 syllable: church. In IPA it is /ˈtʃɝtʃ/.

What is another word for church?

Close synonyms include Christian church, church building, church service. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is church a common word?

church is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.