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church

 
 
/tʃɜːtʃ/ noun

Definition

BUILDING [C, U] a building where Christians go to worship God: We used to go to church every Sunday morning.
GROUP [C] (also Church) one of the different groups that make up the Christian religion: the Anglican Church → See also the Catholic Church
(Definition of church noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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