CHURCH OF ENGLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Church of England mean? 

• CHURCH OF ENGLAND (noun)
  The noun CHURCH OF ENGLAND 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: CHURCH OF ENGLAND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHURCH OF ENGLAND (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 ("Church of England" is a kind of...):

Protestant denomination (group of Protestant congregations)

Meronyms (members of "Church of England"):

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 "Church of England"):

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)