religious music

Questions about religious music

What does religious music mean?

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

What is another word for religious music?

Close synonyms include church 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 religious music a common word?

religious 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.