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lectionary

lectionary noun: a book or listing that contains a collection of scripture readings appointed for Christian or Jewish worship on a given day or occasion.

Noun

lectionary (plural lectionaries)

  1. (Judaism) A book or listing that contains a collection of scripture readings appointed for Christian or Jewish worship on a given day or occasion.

lectionary meaning in Tamil, Arabic and Indonesian

lectionary in Tamil

மறைவாசகப் பகுதிப்பட்டியல்

lectionary in Arabic

book or listing that contains a collection of scripture readings
قَطَمَارُس qaṭamārus

lectionary in Indonesian

book or listing that contains a collection of scripture readings
leksionari, leksionarium

Forms of lectionary

plurallectionaries

Origin of lectionary

Learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin lēctiōnārium.

Questions about lectionary

What does lectionary mean?
Lectionary means a book or listing that contains a collection of scripture readings appointed for Christian or Jewish worship on a given day or occasion.
What is lectionary in Tamil?
Lectionary in Tamil is மறைவாசகப் பகுதிப்பட்டியல். See Lectionary meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is lectionary?
Lectionary is a noun.
What is the plural of lectionary?
The plural of lectionary is lectionaries.

Words near lectionary in the dictionary

  1. lectins
  2. lectio difficilior
  3. lection
  4. lectional
  5. lectionaries
  6. lectionary
  7. lections
  8. lectisternia
  9. lectisternium
  10. lectisterniums
  11. lectological

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lectionary (page history and authors); lectionary (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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