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Plural of church

regular plural

The plural of church is churches.

Forms of church

Singularchurch /t͡ʃɜːt͡ʃ/
Pluralchurches /ˈt͡ʃɝt͡ʃɪz/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Churches in a sentence

  • The moderates are the natural advocates of ecumenism against the fanatics of their churches.From the entry moderate
  • In Connecticut some of the Congregational churches are associated in consociations and the others in associations.From the entry consociation
  • Churches should develop a missional posture for engaging in God's mission.From the entry missional
  • The goal of this interconfessional endeavour is to bring harmony and understanding between these disparate churches.From the entry interconfessional
  • The extra-provincial Anglican churches are a group of small, semi-independent church entities within the Anglican Communion.From the entry extraprovincial

Meaning of church

  1. noun A Christian house of worship; a building where Christian religious services take place.
  2. noun Christians collectively seen as a single spiritual community; Christianity; Christendom.
  3. noun A local group of people who follow the same Christian religious beliefs, local or general.

Full definition of church

Questions about the plural of church

What is the plural of church?
The plural of church is churches.
Is church countable?
Church is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: church (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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