Definitions for denomination

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denomination de·nom·i·na·tion

Spelling: [dih-nom-uh-ney-shuh n]

IPA: /dɪˌnɒm əˈneɪ ʃən/

Denomination is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 649 anagrams from letters in denomination (adeiimnnnoot).

Definitions for denomination

noun

1. a religious group, usually including many local churches, often larger than a sect:
2. one of the grades or degrees in a series of designations of quantity, value, measure, weight, etc.:
3. a name or designation, especially one for a class of things.
4. a class or kind of persons or things distinguished by a specific name.
5. the act of naming or designating a person or thing.

Origin of denomination

1350-1400; Middle English denominacioun Late Latin dēnōminātiōn- (stem of dēnōminātiō), in Latin: metonymy, equivalent to dēnōmināt(us) (see denominate) + -iōn-

Examples for denomination

On his return, he married "Lydia Tindall, of the denomination of Puritans."

Reinke lost his pulpit and was drummed out of the conservative Missouri Synod of the Lutheran denomination.

Communion practices vary by denomination and even by individual parishes.

The article will not come under the denomination of dry goods.

He has long been a valued and honored member of the Baptist denomination.

In form, he was certainly an Episcopalian, though not a sectary of that denomination.

The empty layers of denomination and doctrine that have little to do with grace.

Afraid to incite violence and unsure which denomination has the right to the ladder, no one has moved it since.

Dollar bills (of any denomination) represent a claim on the labor, services, and products of Americans.

The term matriarchy is given to denomination after the maternal side.