Meaning of DENOMINATION
| Pronunciation: | | di`nâmu'neyshun
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- [n] identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others
- [n] a class of one kind of unit in a system of numbers or measures or weights or money; "he flashed a fistful of bills of large denominations"
- [n] a group of religious congregations having its own organization and a distinctive faith
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| | Synonyms: | | appellation, appellative, designation |
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| | See Also: | | believer, category, class, cognomen, communion, congregation, faithful, family, fold, moniker, name, nickname, organisation, organization, Protestant denomination, sobriquet, soubriquet, title, worshiper, worshipper | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \De*nom`i*na"tion\, n. [L. denominatio metonymy:
cf. F. d['e]nomination a naming.]
1. The act of naming or designating.
2. 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.
Those [qualities] which are classed under the
denomination of sublime. --Burke.
3. A class, or society of individuals, called by the same
name; a sect; as, a denomination of Christians.
Syn: Name; appellation; title. See {Name}.
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| | Related Terms: | | adherents, affiliation, allocation, Amish, Anglicanism, Anglo-Catholicism, antinomianism, appellation, appellative, Arianism, assignment, Athanasianism, attribution, baptism, binomen, binomial name, blood, body, Boehmenism, branch, brand, breed, byword, calling, Calvinism, cast, Catholicism, character, characterization, christening, Christian Science, church, clan, class, classification, classifying, cognomen, color, communion, community, confession, Confucianism, Congregationalism, connection, Conservative Judaism, creed, cryptonym, cult, definition, denotation, description, designation, determination, differentiation, disciples, disclosure, division, Eleusinianism, empty title, Episcopalianism, epithet, eponym, Erastianism, Ethical Culture, euonym, expression, faction, faith, feather, fellowship, fingering, fixing, followers, form, genre, genus, Gnosticism, grade, grain, group, gymnosophy, handle, Hinduism, hint, homoiousianism, honorific, hyponym, identification, identifying, ilk, indication, indicativeness, ism, Judaism, kidney, kin, kind, label, Lamaism, latitudinarianism, Laudianism, Laudism, line, Lingayat Hinduism, lot, Magianism, Mahayana Buddhism, make, Mandaeism, manifestation, manner, mark, meaning, Methodism, Mithraism, mold, moniker, Muhammadanism, name, namesake, naming, nature, New Thought, nicknaming, nomen, nomen nudum, number, offshoot, order, organization, Orthodox Christianity, Orthodox Judaism, Oxford Movement, Parsiism, Parsism, party, persuasion, phylum, picking out, pinning down, pointing, pointing out, pointing to, Practical Christianity, precision, proper name, proper noun, Puritanism, Quakerism, quietism, race, Reform Judaism, religious order, Roman Catholicism, Rosicrucianism, Sabaeanism, Salvation Army, schism, school, scientific name, secret name, sect, sectarism, segment, selection, shape, Shiite Muslimism, Shin Buddhism, Shingon Buddhism, Shinto, Shintoism, show, showing, signification, Sikhism, size, society, Socinianism, sort, species, specification, stamp, stipulation, strain, stripe, style, styling, Sufism, suggestion, symptomaticness, tag, tagging, Taoism, tautonym, Tendai Buddhism, term, terming, the like of, the likes of, Theosophy, title, tribe, trinomen, trinomial name, type, Ubiquitarianism, Uniatism, unit, Unitarianism, Vaishnavite Hinduism, Vajrayana Buddhism, value, variety, Vedanta, version, Wahabiism, Yoga, Yogism, Zen, Zen Buddhism, Zoroastrianism |
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