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SERVICE BOOK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does service book mean?
• SERVICE BOOK (noun)
The noun SERVICE BOOK has 1 sense:
1. a book setting forth the forms of church service
Familiarity information: SERVICE BOOK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A book setting forth the forms of church service
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("service book" is a kind of...):
religious text; religious writing; sacred text; sacred writing (writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity)
Instance hyponyms:
Book of Common Prayer (the Anglican service book of the Church of England; has had several revisions since the Reformation and is widely admired for the dignity and beauty of its language)
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