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kyrk

kyrk is the obsolete spelling of kirk.

Meaning of kirk

Noun

kirk (plural kirks)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland) A church.
    • The Ship was cheer'd, the Harbour clear'd— / Merrily did we drop / Below the Kirk, below the Hill, / Below the Light-house top.1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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Forms of kyrk

pluralkyrks

Origin of kyrk

From Northern Middle English kyrk, kyrke, borrowed from Old Norse kirkja, borrowed from Old English ċiriċe (“church”), from Proto-West Germanic *kirikā, an early borrowing of Ancient Greek κυριακόν (kuriakón).

Words formed from kyrk

Questions about kyrk

What is kyrk the obsolete spelling of?
Kyrk is the obsolete spelling of kirk.

Words near kyrk in the dictionary

  1. kyriological
  2. kyriologically
  3. kyriology
  4. Kyriopascha
  5. kyrios
  6. kyrk
  7. kyrkmaster
  8. kyrkmasters
  9. kyrks
  10. Kyrle
  11. Kyrle disease

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kyrk (page history and authors); kirk (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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