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RELIGIOUS SERVICE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of public worship following prescribed rules
Example:
the Sunday service
Synonyms:
divine service; religious service; service
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("religious service" is a kind of...):
religious ceremony; religious ritual (a ceremony having religious meaning)
Meronyms (parts of "religious service"):
invocation; supplication (a prayer asking God's help as part of a religious service)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "religious service"):
church; church service (a service conducted in a house of worship)
devotional (a short religious service)
prayer meeting; prayer service (a service at which people sing hymns and pray together)
chapel; chapel service (a service conducted in a place of worship that has its own altar)
committal service (service committing a body to the grave)
none (a service in the Roman Catholic Church formerly read or chanted at 3 PM (the ninth hour counting from sunrise) but now somewhat earlier)
vesper (a late afternoon or evening worship service)
watch night (a devotional service (especially on New Year's Eve))
