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RELIGIOUS SERVICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does religious service mean? 

RELIGIOUS SERVICE (noun)
  The noun RELIGIOUS SERVICE has 1 sense:

1. the act of public worship following prescribed rulesplay

  Familiarity information: RELIGIOUS SERVICE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


RELIGIOUS SERVICE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of public worship following prescribed rules

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

divine service; religious service; service

Context example:

the Sunday service

Hypernyms ("religious service" is a kind of...):

religious ceremony; religious ritual (a ceremony having religious meaning)

Meronyms (parts of "religious service"):

invocation; supplication (a prayer asking God's help as part of a religious service)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "religious service"):

church; church service (a service conducted in a house of worship)

devotional (a short religious service)

prayer meeting; prayer service (a service at which people sing hymns and pray together)

chapel; chapel service (a service conducted in a place of worship that has its own altar)

committal service (service committing a body to the grave)

none (a service in the Roman Catholic Church formerly read or chanted at 3 PM (the ninth hour counting from sunrise) but now somewhat earlier)

vesper (a late afternoon or evening worship service)

watch night (a devotional service (especially on New Year's Eve))


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