STATIONS OF THE CROSS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Stations of the Cross mean? 

• STATIONS OF THE CROSS (noun)
  The noun STATIONS OF THE CROSS has 1 sense:

1. (Roman Catholic Church) a devotion consisting of fourteen prayers said before a series of fourteen pictures or carvings representing successive incidents during Jesus' passage from Pilate's house to his crucifixion at Calvary

  Familiarity information: STATIONS OF THE CROSS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STATIONS OF THE CROSS (noun)

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Meaning:

(Roman Catholic Church) a devotion consisting of fourteen prayers said before a series of fourteen pictures or carvings representing successive incidents during Jesus' passage from Pilate's house to his crucifixion at Calvary

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

Stations; Stations of the Cross

Hypernyms ("Stations of the Cross" is a kind of...):

devotion ((usually plural) religious observance or prayers (usually spoken silently))

series (similar things placed in order or happening one after another)

Domain category:

Church of Rome; Roman Catholic; Roman Catholic Church; Roman Church; Western Church (the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy)

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)