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ekklesia

ekklesia is the alternative spelling of ecclesia.

Meaning of ecclesia

Noun

ecclesia (plural ecclesiae or ecclesias)

  1. (historical) The public legislative assembly of the Athenians.
  2. A church, either as a body or as a building.
    • The 1880s were no more peaceful for the ecclesias than had been the 1870s. Generally membership was increasing; so much so in London that two new ecclesias were formed, leaving about 200 in the older ecclesia at Islington.1961, Bryan R[onald] Wilson, “The History of Christadelphianism”, in Sects and Society: A Sociological Study of Three Religious Groups in Britain (Heinemann Books on Sociology), London: William...
  3. The congregation, the group of believers, symbolic body or building.

Forms of ekklesia

pluralekklesiai
pluralekklesiae
pluralekklesias

Origin of ekklesia

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía).

Questions about ekklesia

What is ekklesia the alternative spelling of?
Ekklesia is the alternative spelling of ecclesia.

Words near ekklesia in the dictionary

  1. Ekka flu
  2. ekkas
  3. ekker
  4. ekkers
  5. ekki
  6. ekklesia
  7. ekklesiae
  8. ekklesiai
  9. ekklesias
  10. ekklesiast
  11. ekklesiasts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ekklesia (page history and authors); ecclesia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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