place-worship

1. 1.

   the worship of places

   Synonymstopolatry

   Broaderworship

Questions about place-worship

What does place-worship mean?

place-worship means "the worship of places".

How many syllables are in place-worship?

place-worship has 4 syllables: pla-ce--wor-ship. The stress falls on "ce-".

What is another word for place-worship?

Close synonyms include topolatry. 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 place-worship a common word?

place-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.