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# church

«church» in Mova's school dictionary: **a building where Christians go to pray and worship** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a church, churches)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A church is a building where Christians go to pray and worship. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/church/#m1)

2) A church is a group of Christians with the same beliefs, like the Catholic Church. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/church/#m2)

3) Church can mean the service held there: «We go to church on Sunday.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/church/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life many families go to church for services, weddings, christenings and funerals; churches often have a tower, a spire or bells. In towns a church can be a landmark («turn left at the church»). In history lessons churches are old buildings that tell us about the past. Phrases: «go to church», «at church», «church hall», «churchyard».

### examples

- We walked past the old stone church. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/church/#x1)
- My cousin got married in a church. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/church/#x2)
- They go to church every Sunday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/church/#x3)
- The church bells rang at noon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/church/#x4)
- The school concert was in the church hall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/church/#x5)
- Turn right after the church. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/church/#x6)
- The church has beautiful coloured windows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/church/#x7)
- There are graves in the churchyard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/church/#x8)
- "Why, she never goes to church." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/church/#x9)

### note

Plural: churches (add -es after ch). «Go to church» (no «the») means going to the service; «go to the church» means to the building. Capital C when it is a name: «St Mary's Church», «the Church of England». Other faiths have other places of worship: mosque, synagogue, temple, gurdwara.

### In the corpora

- [Picture a small church in Wellington: at the front stands a long wooden box covered in flowers, the coffin.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/2/)
- [A polling station is a place, often a school or church hall, where people vote in secret in a small booth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/31-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge/9/)
- [Five minutes from church, post-office, and golf-links».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/52-willows-ch8-part1-the-gaolers-daughter/22/)
- ["A man of the cloth" means a priest or clergyman, someone whose job is to lead a church.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/32-religion-fate-failure/15/)
- [Confession at church can lift the weight of guilt, but it does not replace saying sorry to the person you wronged.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/336-little-lies-at-home/22/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «church» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/church/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.