Definitions for sermon

sermon ser·mon

Spelling: [sur-muh n]
IPA: /ˈsɜr mən/

Sermon is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 127 anagrams from letters in sermon (emnors).

Definitions for sermon

noun

  1. a discourse for the purpose of religious instruction or exhortation, especially one based on a text of Scripture and delivered by a member of the clergy as part of a religious service.
  2. any serious speech, discourse, or exhortation, especially on a moral issue.
  3. a long, tedious speech.

Origin of sermon

1150-1200; Middle English Medieval Latin sermōn- (stem of sermō) speech from pulpit, Latin: discourse, equivalent to ser- (base of serere to link up, organize) + -mōn- noun suffix

Examples for sermon

Such is the substitute which he offers us for the sermon on the Mount.

Then they went through the service together, from hymn and prayer to the sermon.

King says in a sermon a month later at Tabernacle Baptist Church in Selma, Alabama.

Still I had not absolutely forgotten the sermon, nor all my good resolutions.

Your sermon this Sunday morning: Is the power of prayer enough to overcome the German defense?

Only this very morning I read her a sermon upon 'Propriety, and the fitness of things.'

“I agree with what the sermon was and what it was about,” she said.

A Gaylard Williams Sunday sermon (which lasted for 45 minutes on average) was something to behold.

In Germany, a prominent Muslim imam gave a sermon asking Allah to kill all of the “Zionist Jews.”

The golden rule of the sermon on the Mount is not applied to them.

Word Value for sermon
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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