church building

1. 1.

   a place for public (especially Christian) worship

   “the church was empty”

   Synonymschurch

   Broaderplace of worship

   Narrowerabbeybasilicacathedralkirk

   Partsamen cornerapsechancelchurch towerlady chapelnarthex

   church service

Questions about church building

What does church building mean?

church building means "a place for public (especially Christian) worship".

What is another word for church building?

Close synonyms include church. 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 building a common word?

church building 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.