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Mormon Tabernacle

Mormon Tabernacle

1 7.4
A large Salt Lake City hall used for Mormon church services and choir concerts
  • noun
  • /ˈmɔrmən ˈtæbərnækl/
  • US
translation icon : Tabernáculo Mormón
  • The Mormon Tabernacle is renowned for its stunning architecture and impressive acoustics.
  • Mormon Tabernacle Choir
  • perform at the Mormon Tabernacle

Examples

  • On Sunday, the all-day Salt Lake City tour includes a stop at the Sunday morning broadcast session of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, a drive through historic downtown and the historic residential district, a "lunch on your own" stop near Temple Square, a photo stop at Cathedral of the Madeleine, This Is The Place Heritage Park, the University of Utah, and Red Butte Gardens.

    Academic text (2005)

  • If you've looked around on YouTube in the past for videos of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, none of them was official and the quality typically has been poor.

    Blog text (30)

  • "WLC to be Held at Mormon Tabernacle

    Academic text (2001)

  • The incredible music of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is now at your fingertips.

    Blog text (30)

  • I am pleased to announce that the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is entering the world of social media with its own YouTube channel.

    Blog text (30)

  • The Mormon Tabernacle Choir presented a mini-concert in lieu of their regular rehearsal on Thursday evening.

    Academic text (2005)

  • The 2002 World's Largest Concert (TM) (WLC) will be performed at the Mormon Tabernacle, the premiere performance venue in Salt Lake City, Utah.

    Academic text (2001)

  • The first words about the announcement were given in a prerecorded video message by the choir's adviser, President Thomas S. Monson: "I love the music of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir."

    Blog text (30)

  • Dad, Todd, Mal, and I are sitting in the positions I've assigned us, and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is singing the National Anthem really slowly.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • The annual Christmas gala at the Mormon Tabernacle attracts thousands of visitors each year.

Synonyms

tabernacle
vsMormon Tabernacle
7 9.9

A large building used by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for worship

is the specific Salt Lake auditorium famed for its choir and distinctive architecture

Surface Forms

Mormon Tabernacle singular

Morphology

Mormon + tabernacle

The meaning is directly built from the constituents: 'Mormon' (connected with the LDS church) + 'tabernacle' (a large meeting hall), so a learner who knows both words will infer it refers to an LDS meeting hall or building. Although it can denote a specific famous auditorium with a renowned choir, that specific referent is an extension of the transparent compositional meaning rather than an unpredictable idiom.

Etymology

Mormon Tabernacle comes from early church members who used the word 'tabernacle' to mean a large meeting place for 'worship' and public gatherings. They built a very large hall in Salt Lake City where the famous 'choir' sings and the building has great sound, so today Mormon Tabernacle means that big church hall used for services and music.