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EVENING PRAYER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Evening Prayer mean? 

EVENING PRAYER (noun)
  The noun EVENING PRAYER has 1 sense:

1. (Anglican Church) a daily evening service with prayers prescribed in the Book of Common Prayerplay

  Familiarity information: EVENING PRAYER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


EVENING PRAYER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Evening Prayer; evensong

Instance hypernyms:

prayer (a fixed text used in praying)

Domain category:

Anglican Church; Anglican Communion; Church of England (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)


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