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mega-church

mega-church is the alternative spelling of megachurch.

Meaning of megachurch

Noun

megachurch (plural megachurches)

  1. A church with an atypically large congregation.
    • This American style of religion has begun to spread around the world through the efforts of what the authors call pastorpreneurs, who have modeled themselves on their American counterparts, building megachurches and entrepreneurial empires.2009 March 31, Michiko Kakutani, “Almighty Empire With a Global Reach”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2018

Forms of mega-church

pluralmega-churches

Questions about mega-church

What is mega-church the alternative spelling of?
Mega-church is the alternative spelling of megachurch.

Words near mega-church in the dictionary

  1. mega-becquerel
  2. mega-buck
  3. mega-bucks
  4. mega-cap
  5. mega-caps
  6. mega-church
  7. mega-churches
  8. mega-colossal
  9. mega-data
  10. mega-donor
  11. mega-donors

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mega-church (page history and authors); megachurch (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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