meetinghouse
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8.4
- noun
- /ˈmiːtɪŋhaʊs/
:
casa de reuniones
- The community gathers every Sunday at the Quaker meetinghouse for spiritual reflection and worship.
Examples
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By the eve of the American Revolution, their numbers had grown to eighty distinct family groups, and they had built a separate meetinghouse just five hundred feet away from Gay's church on the town green.
Academic text (2005) -
I never told him that the "nice" synagogue had once been a Quaker meetinghouse.
Academic text (2000) -
Not only was this building used for school, but it was also a public meetinghouse for those early settlers.
Blog text (6) -
On Sunday, December 12, he rode an additional four miles to a log meetinghouse, where there was a small Methodist society.
Academic text (2011) -
Those beams were taken out... of this old Quaker meetinghouse out in rural Pennsylvania.
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In December of 1815, the town meeting decided to replace the aging meetinghouse, it having fallen into disrepair.
Academic text (1993) -
A contractor in Kinshasa who builds meetinghouses for the Church frequently offers employment to graduates of this course.
Blog text (24) -
In his diary, Williams noted that the sermon elicited a "great moaning and crying out" in the meetinghouse.
Academic text (2005) -
Edwards preached in the Suffield meetinghouse again the following morning, then retired to a nearby residence where he continued exhorting the assembly.
Academic text (2005) -
Traveling preachers such as Jonathan Parsons of Lyme delivered powerful weekday lectures to packed meetinghouses.
Academic text (2005)
Synonyms
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1.0
A building where Christians meet to pray and worship
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2.9
A place where people meet to pray or have religious services
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2.9
A building where people gather for prayer or religious services
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3.1
A building where people gather to pray, like a church
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1.0
A building where Christians meet to worship
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3.8
A building where people meet to pray together
A small building where people gather to worship, often used by Quakers
A building where people meet for prayer or community events
A building next to a cathedral or monastery where church leaders meet
How Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Meetinghouse is a simple compound of meeting ('a gathering') and house ('a building'), and it was used for the plain places where groups such as Quakers met for worship. So it now means a building where people meet for religious services.