Church vs. Monastery — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Church and Monastery
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Church
A building for public, especially Christian worship.
Monastery
A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits). A monastery generally includes a place reserved for prayer which may be a chapel, church, or temple, and may also serve as an oratory, or in the case of communities anything from a single building housing only one senior and two or three junior monks or nuns, to vast complexes and estates housing tens or hundreds.
Church
The company of all Christians regarded as a spiritual body.
Monastery
A community of persons, especially monks, bound by vows to a religious life and often living in partial or complete seclusion.
Church
A specified Christian denomination
The Presbyterian Church.
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Monastery
The dwelling place of such a community.
Church
A congregation.
Monastery
A residence for monks or others who have taken religious vows.
Church
Public divine worship in a church; a religious service
Goes to church at Christmas and Easter.
Monastery
A house of religious retirement, or of secusion from ordinary temporal concerns, especially for monks; - more rarely applied to such a house for females.
Church
The clerical profession; clergy.
Monastery
The residence of a religious community
Church
Ecclesiastical power as distinguished from the secular
The separation of church and state.
Church
To conduct a church service for, especially to perform a religious service for (a woman after childbirth).
Church
Of or relating to the church; ecclesiastical.
Church
(countable) A Christian house of worship; a building where Christian religious services take place.
There is a lovely little church in the valley.
This building used to be a church before being converted into a library.
Church
Christians collectively seen as a single spiritual community; Christianity; Christendom.
These worshippers make up the Church of Christ.
Church
(countable) A local group of people who follow the same Christian religious beliefs, local or general.
Church
(countable) A particular denomination of Christianity.
The Church of England separated from the Roman Catholic Church in 1534.
Church
Christian worship held at a church; service.
Church
Organized religion in general or a specific religion considered as a political institution.
Many constitutions enshrine the separation of church and state.
Church
Any religious group.
She goes to a Wiccan church down the road.
Church
Assembly.
Church
To conduct a religious service for (a woman after childbirth, or a newly married couple).
Church
(transitive) To educate someone religiously, as in in a church.
Church
(slang) Expressing strong agreement.
- These burritos are the best!
- Church!
Church
A building set apart for Christian worship.
Church
A Jewish or heathen temple.
Church
A formally organized body of Christian believers worshiping together.
Church
A body of Christian believers, holding the same creed, observing the same rites, and acknowledging the same ecclesiastical authority; a denomination; as, the Roman Catholic church; the Presbyterian church.
Church
The collective body of Christians.
Church
Any body of worshipers; as, the Jewish church; the church of Brahm.
Church
The aggregate of religious influences in a community; ecclesiastical influence, authority, etc.; as, to array the power of the church against some moral evil.
Remember that both church and state are properly the rulers of the people, only because they are their benefactors.
Church
To bless according to a prescribed form, or to unite with in publicly returning thanks in church, as after deliverance from the dangers of childbirth; as, the churching of women.
Church
One of the groups of Christians who have their own beliefs and forms of worship
Church
A place for public (especially Christian) worship;
The church was empty
Church
A service conducted in a church;
Don't be late for church
Church
The body of people who attend or belong to a particular local church;
Our church is hosting a picnic next week
Church
Perform a special church rite or service for;
Church a woman after childbirth
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