Denomination

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A large group of religious congregations united under a common faith and name and organized under a single administrative and legal hierarchy.
  • n. One of a series of kinds, values, or sizes, as in a system of currency or weights: Cash registers have compartments for bills of different denominations. The stamps come in 25¢ and 45¢ denominations.
  • n. A name or designation, especially for a class or group.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The act of naming or designating.
  • n. That by which anything is denominated or styled; an epithet; a name, designation, or title; especially, a general name indicating a class of like individuals; a category; as, the denomination of units, or of thousands, or of fourths, or of shillings, or of tons.
  • n. A class, or society of individuals, called by the same name; a sect; as, a religious denomination.
  • n. A unit in a series of units of weight, money, etc
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of naming or designating.
  • n. That by which anything is denominated or styled; an epithet; a name, designation, or title; especially, a general name indicating a class of like individuals; a category.
  • n. A class, or society of individuals, called by the same name; a sect.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of naming: as, Linnæus's denomination of plants.
  • n. A name or appellation; especially, a collective designation.
  • n. A class, society, or collection of individuals called by the same name; specifically, a religious sect: as, the Methodist denomination.
  • n. Synonyms Appellation, etc. See name, n.
  • n. In any system of reckoning, a class of units of one kind and having a specific name, as tens, hundreds, thousands, etc., in numbers; dollars or cents in values; pounds, hundredweights, tons, etc., in expressing quantity; inches, feet, yards, miles, etc., in measures of length, etc.: as, an issue of paper money of small denomination.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a class of one kind of unit in a system of numbers or measures or weights or money
  • n. identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others
  • n. a group of religious congregations having its own organization and a distinctive faith
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    category    family    class   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    title    name    appellation    epithet    category    sect   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    sect    congregation    creed    nationality    appellation    tenet    subdivision    locality    institution    caste