ACTS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Acts mean? 

• ACTS (noun)
  The noun ACTS has 1 sense:

1. a New Testament book describing the development of the early church from Christ's Ascension to Paul's sojourn at Rome

  Familiarity information: ACTS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACTS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A New Testament book describing the development of the early church from Christ's Ascension to Paul's sojourn at Rome

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Acts; Acts of the Apostles

Instance hypernyms:

book (a major division of a long written composition)

Holonyms ("Acts" is a part of...):

New Testament (the collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation; composed soon after Christ's death; the second half of the Christian Bible)

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