church bench

1. 1.

   long bench with backs; used in church by the congregation

   Synonymspew

   Broaderbench

Questions about church bench

What does church bench mean?

church bench means "long bench with backs; used in church by the congregation".

What is another word for church bench?

Close synonyms include pew. 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 bench a common word?

church bench is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.