Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A building used for public meetings and especially for Protestant or Quaker religious services.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A house of worship: specifically employed by Friends to designate their houses of worship, in England by members of the established church to designate the houses of worship of dissenters, and in the United States, chiefly in the country, as a designation of any house for worship.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A house used as a place of worship; a church; -- in England, applied only to a house so used by Dissenters.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A building where people meet for a purpose.
- noun The
Quaker term for their buildings where their congregations assemble for worship.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun columbine of eastern North America having long-spurred red flowers
- noun a building for religious assembly (especially Nonconformists, e.g., Quakers)
Etymologies
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Examples
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That seems high, except I biked to work nearly every day, 7. 2km, and the Quaker meetinghouse is 9km, and I biked to various evening events once or twice a month too.]
Remembering da_lj 2008
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I don't disparage the fare, mother, that thee gives us at the meetinghouse, that is, when thee does give us any, but
A Day of Fate Edward Payson Roe 1863
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The meetinghouse is a neat plain building, in perfect repair, still used by the Friends at Ulverstone and the neighbourhood for religious worship.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) John Roby 1821
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He posted a number of reliable, cool-headed men around the "meetinghouse," many of them being armed.
West Wind Drift George Barr McCutcheon 1897
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I wouldn't have a problem with a nude Adam and Eve in a Mormon meetinghouse, but I can't see it happening, artist Lee Bennion said from her studio in Spring City, Utah.
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You can hardly feel yourself to be an outsider when an entire meetinghouse of people is silently engaged in dwelling on the otherworldly and the inspirational.
Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011
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I wouldn't have a problem with a nude Adam and Eve in a Mormon meetinghouse, but I can't see it happening, artist Lee Bennion said from her studio in Spring City, Utah.
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Temples are more sacred places of worship than the average meetinghouse where Sunday services are held.
The Sins of Brother Curtis Lisa Davis 2011
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I wouldn't have a problem with a nude Adam and Eve in a Mormon meetinghouse, but I can't see it happening, artist Lee Bennion said from her studio in Spring City, Utah.
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I wouldn't have a problem with a nude Adam and Eve in a Mormon meetinghouse, but I can't see it happening, artist Lee Bennion said from her studio in Spring City, Utah.
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