communion
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4.9
- noun
- /kəˈmjunɪən/
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Eucaristía
- At her church, the members gather every Sunday for a special communion ceremony where they share bread and wine.
- administer communion
We're going to do a small communion for the community.
- We're going to do a small communion for the community.
- And he and he said to me, he said, Chris, do you want to come take communion right now?
- Here's what I hate when the tray come around and it's communion.
- You have to yes, you have to be a baptized and confirmed member of the Eastern Orthodox Church to take communion in an Orthodox Church.
- And we always went to Mass, Holy Communion.
- I went with my father, become Christenda Catholic, passed me all the communion in Ozil.
- So there's me, Chaza, Heinz Tays and Aaron all went round a holy what Communion?
- And talking about religions, I mean, I was a Catholic brought up that way, baptized, communion, confirmation till I found out what priests do.
- My mother didn't said she didn't remember anything about this, but my brother said two things about when he told her about communion.
Examples
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This is - his first communion.
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On subsequent Sundays, Mrs. Deichmann approached the communion rail with her two kids.
Fiction book (2000) -
We had Communion and it s the wine
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God took her from me the day of her First Communion.
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The three cousins had made their first communion together.
Fiction book (1990) -
You haven't taken your communion for at least three weeks.
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I haven't seen him since his first communion.
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What impressed me most, however, was the distribution of the communion wafers.
Academic text (2015) -
You have to yes, you have to be a baptized and confirmed member of the Eastern Orthodox Church to take communion in an Orthodox Church.
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Maryann Wrobleska walked as though she were about to take communion, her hands folded in prayer, eyes uplifted.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
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4.9
A Christian church service where people receive bread and wine to remember Jesus
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9.3
A Christian service when people bless and eat bread and drink wine to remember Jesus' Last Supper
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6.3
A Christian ceremony when people eat bread and drink wine to remember the Last Supper
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9.1
A Christian ceremony that blesses bread and wine to remember the Last Supper
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7.7
A Christian ceremony where people share bread and wine to remember the meal Jesus had before he died
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8.1
A Christian ceremony when people bless and eat bread and wine to remember Jesus' Last Supper
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9.8
A religious ceremony where Christians bless bread and wine to remember Jesus' Last Supper
A Christian ceremony where people eat bread and drink wine to remember Jesus' death and his rising from the dead
A Christian ceremony where bread and wine are blessed and eaten to remember Jesus' Last Supper
A Christian service in which people receive bread and wine to show unity
An old Christian ceremony where people receive bread and wine
Compounds
- Formal
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6.3
A Christian ceremony when people eat bread and drink wine to remember the Last Supper
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7.4
A worldwide group of national churches connected to the Church of England with the Archbishop of Canterbury as symbolic leader
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Communion comes from the Latin communis, meaning 'shared', and is the same root as common and community. That's why the ceremony called communion is a shared meal of bread and wine to remember Jesus.