Synonyms for church
Most common
temple chapel house of worship congregation cathedral schism
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Chapel — A Christian house of worship; a building where Christian religious services take place
2. Congregation — assembly
congregation, house of worship, denomination, sanctuary, tabernacle, sect, assembly
Definitions
- n. 1
A Christian house of worship; a building where Christian religious services take place.
There is a lovely little church in the valley.
- n. 2
Assembly.
Related words
- Word family
- churchical churchish churchlike churchly churchman churchscot churchtown churchwarden
- Phrases
- church service church windows parochial church council church council church crown church of ease church hat church school
- Is a kind of
- organization building
Forms
- Plural
- churches → chapels, temples, kirks, congregations…
Example sentences
- temple It has taken forty-six years to build this temple.
- chapel The Sistine chapel is Michelangelo's masterpiece.
- congregation Ziri left and the rest of the congregation followed.
- cathedral He built an exact replica of Notre Dame Cathedral.
- schism The community underwent a schism.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| church | rising | |
| temple | rising | |
| chapel | steady | |
| congregation | rising | |
| cathedral | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- kirk1, sect1
- 5 letters
- autem
- 6 letters
- temple2, chapel2, schism2
- 8 letters
- assembly3
- 9 letters
- cathedral3, sanctuary4
- 10 letters
- tabernacle4
- 12 letters
- congregation4, denomination5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (temple2 = 2 syllables).