ANGLICAN COMMUNION
Dictionary entry overview: What does Anglican Communion mean?
• ANGLICAN COMMUNION (noun)
The noun ANGLICAN COMMUNION has 1 sense:
1. the national church of England (and all other churches in other countries that share its beliefs); has its see in Canterbury and the sovereign as its temporal head
Familiarity information: ANGLICAN COMMUNION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ANGLICAN COMMUNION (noun)
Meaning:
The national church of England (and all other churches in other countries that share its beliefs); has its see in Canterbury and the sovereign as its temporal head
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
Anglican Church; Anglican Communion; Church of England
Hypernyms ("Anglican Communion" is a kind of...):
Protestant denomination (group of Protestant congregations)
Meronyms (members of "Anglican Communion"):
Anglican Catholic (a member of the Anglican Church who emphasizes its Catholic character)
Anglican (a Protestant who is a follower of Anglicanism)
Domain category:
church; church service (a service conducted in a house of worship)
Domain member category:
vicar ((Church of England) a clergyman appointed to act as priest of a parish)
sidesman ((Church of England) an assistant to the churchwarden; collects offerings of money in the church)
bishop (a clergyman having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve apostles of Christ)
archdeacon ((Anglican Church) an ecclesiastical dignitary usually ranking just below a bishop)
Evening Prayer; evensong ((Anglican Church) a daily evening service with prayers prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer)
Circumcision; Feast of the Circumcision; January 1 ((Roman Catholic Church and Anglican Church) feast day celebrating the circumcision of Jesus; celebrated on January 1st)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Anglican Communion"):
Episcopal Church; Protestant Episcopal Church (United States church that is in communication with the see of Canterbury)
Church of Ireland (autonomous branch of the Church of England in Ireland)
Episcopal Church; Episcopal Church of Scotland (an autonomous branch of the Anglican Communion in Scotland)
