church music

Questions about church music

What does church music mean?

church music means "genre of music composed for performance as part of religious ceremonies".

What is another word for church music?

Close synonyms include religious music. 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 music a common word?

church music 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.