liturgy

1. 1.

   a Christian sacrament commemorating the Last Supper by consecrating bread and wine

   SynonymsHoly EucharistEucharistsacrament of the EucharistHoly SacramentEucharistic liturgyLord's Supper

   Broadersacrament

   PartsOffertoryCommunion
2. 2.

   a rite or body of rites prescribed for public worship

   Broaderrite

   NarrowerChristian liturgy

Other forms of liturgy

plural

liturgies·

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 liturgy

What does liturgy mean?

liturgy means "a Christian sacrament commemorating the Last Supper by consecrating bread and wine". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in liturgy?

liturgy has 3 syllables: lit-ur-gy. The stress falls on "lit". In IPA it is /ˈlɪtɚdʒi/.

What is another word for liturgy?

Close synonyms include Holy Eucharist, Eucharist, sacrament of the Eucharist, Holy Sacrament, Eucharistic liturgy. 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 liturgy a common word?

liturgy is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.