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METHODIST DENOMINATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Group of Methodist congregations
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Methodist denomination" is a kind of...):
Protestant denomination (group of Protestant congregations)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Methodist denomination"):
Wesleyan Methodist Church; Wesleyan Methodists (the original Methodist Church)
Evangelical United Brethren Church (a Methodist denomination)
United Methodist Church (union of the Wesleyan Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church)
Holonyms ("Methodist denomination" is a part of...):
Methodist Church; Methodists (a Protestant denomination founded on the principles of John Wesley and Charles Wesley)
