Church

Definition

church /tʃɜ:tʃ/ n ၁။ [C] ခရစ္ယာန္ဘုရားေက်ာင္း။ The procession moved into the church. ❍ a church steeple ❍ church services. ၂။ [U] ဝတ္ျပဳဆုေတာင္းပြဲ။ Church begins/is at 9 o'clock. ❍ How often do you go to church? ❍ They're in/at church (ie attending a service). ❍ school ၃။ the Church [sing] ခရစ္ယာန္ဘာသာဝင္(ထု)။ ခရစ္ယာန္ အသင္းေတာ္။ The Church has a duty to condemn violence. ၄။ Church [C] ခရစ္ယာန္ဂိုဏ္းေတာ္။ the Anglican Church ❍ the Catholic Church ❍ the Free Churches. ၅။ the Church [sing] ခရစ္ယာန္ဘုန္းေတာ္ႀကီး(ထု)။ ခရစ္ယာန္ သာသနာ့ေဘာင္။ the conflict between (the) Church and (the) State ❍ go into/enter the Church (ie become a Christian minister). ❏ churchgoer /'tʃɜ:tʃgǝƱǝ(r)/ n ခရစ္ယာန္ဘုရားေက်ာင္းသို႔ ဝတ္မပ်က္သြားသူ။ ❏ churchgoing n [U] ခရစ္ယာန္ဘုရားေက်ာင္းသို႔ မွန္မွန္တက္ ျခင္း။ ❏ the Church of England n [sing] အဂၤလိကန္ ခရစ္ယာန္ ဂိုဏ္း။

Examples

1. An old country church on the side of a hill
2. The church of Our Lady and Saint Michael
3. [go to church] : She doesn’t go to church very often these days.
4. [in church] : Did you get married in church?
5. The church choir/doors/funding
6. The Methodist Church
7. The Roman Catholic Church
8. The division between Church and State
9. The power of the Church in the Middle Ages