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LORD'S PRAYER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lord's Prayer mean? 

LORD'S PRAYER (noun)
  The noun LORD'S PRAYER has 1 sense:

1. the prayer that Christ gave his disciples in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 6:9-13)play

  Familiarity information: LORD'S PRAYER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LORD'S PRAYER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The prayer that Christ gave his disciples in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 6:9-13)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Instance hypernyms:

prayer (a fixed text used in praying)

Instance hyponyms:

Paternoster ((Roman Catholic Church) the Lord's Prayer in Latin; translates as 'our father')

Holonyms ("Lord's Prayer" is a part of...):

Sermon on the Mount (the first major discourse delivered by Jesus (Matthew 5-7 and Luke 6:20-49))


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