house of worship

Questions about house of worship

What does house of worship mean?

house of worship means "any building where congregations gather for prayer".

What is another word for house of worship?

Close synonyms include place of worship, house of prayer, house of God. 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 house of worship a common word?

house of worship 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.