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    HOUSE OF PRAYER

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Any building where congregations gather for prayerplay

    Synonyms:

    house of God; house of prayer; house of worship; place of worship

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting man-made objects

    Hypernyms ("house of prayer" is a kind of...):

    building; edifice (a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "house of prayer"):

    bethel (a house of worship (especially one for sailors))

    chapel (a place of worship that has its own altar)

    church; church building (a place for public (especially Christian) worship)

    conventicle; meetinghouse (a building for religious assembly (especially Nonconformists, e.g., Quakers))

    masjid; musjid ((Islam) a Muslim place of worship)

    mosque ((Islam) a Muslim place of worship that usually has a minaret)

    shrine (a place of worship hallowed by association with some sacred thing or person)

    synagogue; tabernacle; temple ((Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation)

    temple (place of worship consisting of an edifice for the worship of a deity)

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