CHRISTENDOM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Christendom mean? 

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

1. the collective body of Christians throughout the world and history (found predominantly in Europe and the Americas and Australia)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHRISTENDOM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The collective body of Christians throughout the world and history (found predominantly in Europe and the Americas and Australia)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Christendom; Christianity

Context example:

for a thousand years the Roman Catholic Church was the principal church of Christendom

Hypernyms ("Christendom" is a kind of...):

body (a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity)

Meronyms (parts of "Christendom"):

Christian church; church (one of the groups of Christians who have their own beliefs and forms of worship)

church (the body of people who attend or belong to a particular local church)

Derivation:

Christian (a religious person who believes Jesus is the Christ and who is a member of a Christian denomination)

 Context examples 

“Your Company has been, then, to bow knee before our holy father, the Pope Urban, the prop and centre of Christendom?” asked Alleyne, much interested.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"In the name of all the elves in Christendom, is that Jane Eyre?" he demanded.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

O wife, wife! said he, how can you be pope? there is but one pope at a time in Christendom.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

"There's not a magazine in Christendom that would dare to publish it—you know that."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But somehow envy and discontent soon vanished when she thought of all the patient love and labor John had put into the little home awaiting her, and when they sat together in the twilight, talking over their small plans, the future always grew so beautiful and bright that she forgot Sallie's splendor and felt herself the richest, happiest girl in Christendom.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

In obedience, therefore, to his honour’s commands, I related to him the Revolution under the Prince of Orange; the long war with France, entered into by the said prince, and renewed by his successor, the present queen, wherein the greatest powers of Christendom were engaged, and which still continued: I computed, at his request, that about a million of Yahoos might have been killed in the whole progress of it; and perhaps a hundred or more cities taken, and five times as many ships burnt or sunk.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Of all these pardons which I bear every one is stamped and signed by our holy father, the prop and centre of Christendom.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I know there's not a magazine in Christendom that wouldn't jump at it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

For the last stand of the Company had been told throughout Christendom wherever a brave deed of arms was loved, and honors had flowed in upon the few who had survived it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Man for man, with equal weapons, they are as worthy and valiant men as could be found in the whole of Christendom.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)