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)

Sense 1

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:

Evening Prayer; evensong ((Anglican Church) a daily evening service with prayers prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer)

archdeacon ((Anglican Church) an ecclesiastical dignitary usually ranking just below a bishop)

bishop (a senior member of the Christian clergy 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)

sidesman ((Church of England) an assistant to the churchwarden; collects offerings of money in the church)

vicar ((Church of England) a clergyman appointed to act as priest of a parish)

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)

 Context examples 

Yet while prize-courts procrastinated, or there was a chance of an appointment by showing their sunburned faces at the Admiralty, so long they would continue to pace with their quarter-deck strut down Whitehall, or to gather of an evening to discuss the events of the last war or the chances of the next at Fladong’s, in Oxford Street, which was reserved as entirely for the Navy as Slaughter’s was for the Army, or Ibbetson’s for the Church of England.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The disagreement subsisting between yourself and my late honoured father always gave me much uneasiness, and since I have had the misfortune to lose him, I have frequently wished to heal the breach; but for some time I was kept back by my own doubts, fearing lest it might seem disrespectful to his memory for me to be on good terms with anyone with whom it had always pleased him to be at variance.—'There, Mrs. Bennet.'—My mind, however, is now made up on the subject, for having received ordination at Easter, I have been so fortunate as to be distinguished by the patronage of the Right Honourable Lady Catherine de Bourgh, widow of Sir Lewis de Bourgh, whose bounty and beneficence has preferred me to the valuable rectory of this parish, where it shall be my earnest endeavour to demean myself with grateful respect towards her ladyship, and be ever ready to perform those rites and ceremonies which are instituted by the Church of England. As a clergyman, moreover, I feel it my duty to promote and establish the blessing of peace in all families within the reach of my influence; and on these grounds I flatter myself that my present overtures are highly commendable, and that the circumstance of my being next in the entail of Longbourn estate will be kindly overlooked on your side, and not lead you to reject the offered olive-branch. I cannot be otherwise than concerned at being the means of injuring your amiable daughters, and beg leave to apologise for it, as well as to assure you of my readiness to make them every possible amends—but of this hereafter. If you should have no objection to receive me into your house, I propose myself the satisfaction of waiting on you and your family, Monday, November 18th, by four o'clock, and shall probably trespass on your hospitality till the Saturday se'ennight following, which I can do without any inconvenience, as Lady Catherine is far from objecting to my occasional absence on a Sunday, provided that some other clergyman is engaged to do the duty of the day.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)