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UNIFICATION CHURCH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Unification Church mean?
• UNIFICATION CHURCH (noun)
The noun UNIFICATION CHURCH has 1 sense:
1. a Christian church (with some Buddhist elements) founded in 1954 by Sun Myung Moon and known for staging mass weddings and other communal activities
Familiarity information: UNIFICATION CHURCH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A Christian church (with some Buddhist elements) founded in 1954 by Sun Myung Moon and known for staging mass weddings and other communal activities
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Unification Church" is a kind of...):
Christian church; church (one of the groups of Christians who have their own beliefs and forms of worship)
Meronyms (members of "Unification Church"):
Moonie (an often derogatory term for a member of the Unification Church)
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