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Definition of Denomination

1. Noun. A group of religious congregations having its own organization and a distinctive faith.

2. Noun. 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"

3. Noun. Identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others.

Definition of Denomination

1. n. The act of naming or designating.

Definition of Denomination

1. Noun. The act of naming or designating. ¹

2. Noun. 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. ¹

3. Noun. A class, or society of individuals, called by the same name; a sect; as, a denomination of Christians. ¹

4. Noun. A unit in a series of units of weight, money, etc ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Denomination

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Denomination

denlike denned dennet dennets denning denningite denoised denoising denominable denominal

denominally denominate denominated denominates denominating denomination (current term) denominational denominationalism denominationalist denominationalists

denominationally denominations denominative denominatively denominatives denominator denominators denopamine denormal denormalisation

Literary usage of Denomination

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Reduction is the method of expressing quantities in a denomination lower or ... To reduce a higher denomination to a lower, multiply in succession by the ..."

2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"He served on the Board of Foreign Missions of his denomination, on the Board of Directors of Union Theological Seminary, New York, ..."

3. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"With the money so donated, and -with other funds contributed by the members of the denomination there was erected on said lot a parsonage "for the use, ..."

4. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1856)
"During the manufacture of the paper, when in a pulpy state, the characters or letters which indicate the denomination of the bill, whether " five," " ten," ..."

5. The Christian Examiner (1847)
"At least, we think their effect on our own denomination is decidedly beneficial. The excitement, which almost ..."

6. English Synonymes Explained in Alphabetical Order: With Copious by George Crabb (1881)
"NAME, APPELLATION, TITLE, denomination. NAME, v. To name. ... denomination is to particular bodies, what appellation is to an individual ; namely, ..."

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