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Definition of Meetinghouse
1. Noun. A building for religious assembly (especially Nonconformists, e.g., Quakers).
Generic synonyms: House Of God, House Of Prayer, House Of Worship, Place Of Worship
Definition of Meetinghouse
1. n. A house used as a place of worship; a church; -- in England, applied only to a house so used by Dissenters.
Definition of Meetinghouse
1. Noun. A building where people meet for a purpose. ¹
2. Noun. The Quaker term for their buildings where their congregations assemble for worship. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Meetinghouse
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Meetinghouse
Literary usage of Meetinghouse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Greenfield: Shire Town of Franklin County, Massachusetts by Francis McGee Thompson, Lucy Cutler Kellogg (1904)
"In 1894, while preparing an address to be delivered upon the old meetinghouse
spot, finding it hard to obtain information in regard to the old building, ..."
2. The Early Records of Groton, Massachusetts: 1662-1707 by Groton (Mass.), Groton, Mass, Samuel Abbott Green (1880)
"It represents the First Parish meetinghouse before it was remodelled in the year
1839, at which time it was partially turned round, and the north end made ..."
3. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1865)
"Upon a case agreed by the parties, it appeared, that certain land was conveyed
to the Cambridge Port meetinghouse Corporation, by deed of the 15th of April, ..."
4. The Congregational Review (1867)
"THE meetinghouse AND THE MINISTRY. THE practical power of the church is to be
developed, very largely, in connection with two central ideas, viz., ..."
5. Collections by CT Historical Society (1908)
"You are hearby Required to warn the proprietors of Londonderry to meet at their
meetinghouse on Munday the thirteenth Instant May at Eight of the Clock ..."
6. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"The terms "church, meetinghouse, or other place of religious worship," within
the meaning of a statute exempting such places from taxation, do not include a ..."
7. Community Life and Civic Problems by Howard Copeland. Hill (1922)
"The New England meetinghouse, it has been said, was "as perfect an expression of the
... 1 A NEW ENGLAND meetinghouse Recently the institutional church, ..."
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