denomination
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- noun
- /ˌdɛnəˈmeɪʃən/
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denominación
- And there were half a million people of all denominations: the Catholic, the Protestant.
- a Protestant denomination
- a religious denomination
- a Christian denomination
My mom has kind of wavered in her faith, no real denomination.
- My mom has kind of wavered in her faith, no real denomination.
- And then those reports are the ones that say churches in decline, mainline denominations are in decline, right?
- We have Catholics and Methodists and we freeze and lots of other Christian denominations.
- And so most Christian pastors, denominations, networks and ministries, they were built in and for peacetime.
- And so there should not be the standard where some are OK and some aren't coming from people within the Christian denomination.
- I've talked to atheists and to Christians of other denominations, and what he really does, what Pope Francis does, I think beautifully, is challenge us all.
- And then, you know, once that monopoly on truth and power has been cracked, then you see all sorts of systems and, and, and different sects and denominations crop up.
- And there's even early Christian denominations that would say like Zeus and Athena and Aphrodite, they're all demons that Jesus came to save everybody from.
- You know, the different denominations have Smith, the Mormonism.
Examples
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They were Methodists, a denomination my father always referred to as Baptists who could read.
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The same problem exists in the relationship between Protestant denominations and between them and the African independent churches.
Academic text (1996) -
Would you prefer one denomination over another... as far as the love of Christ goes?
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From one Protestant denomination to another.
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In each country and for each denomination or confession, there was a unique context and response.
Academic text (1991) -
Church music was engraved on me at an early age in a denomination known for its choirs.
Fiction book (1997) -
And the question is, well, can you actually have toleration, which means letting people belong to different denominations and practice what they want?
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As representatives of two of the nation's largest evangelical denominations, Temme and Cole presented convincing testimony.
Academic text (1991) -
Catholics make up 40 percent of churchgoers, and dozens of Protestant denominations constitute 16.7 percent of adherents.
Academic text (2012) -
In the United States, there are many Christian denominations, each with unique beliefs and practices.
Synonyms
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1.0
A group of Christians with the same beliefs and way of worship
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A group of Christians with its own beliefs and ways of worship
Compounds
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A group of Protestant churches that share the same beliefs and practices
A Christian group that does not baptize babies but baptizes only adults who say they believe
A group of Baptist churches with its own organization and beliefs about worship and baptism
A group of churches that follow Methodist beliefs and have similar worship and rules
How Large
Surface Forms
Morphology
denomination = denominate (semi-transparent) = de + nomin + ation
Built from the verb 'denominate' ('to name'), but the specialized institutional sense 'a branch of a religion' is an established, slightly shifted meaning that may not be immediately predictable for learners.
Etymology
Denomination comes from Latin parts de- and nominare, where nominare means 'to name'. So a religious denomination is simply a group 'given a name'—a named branch of a faith.