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单词 meetinghouse
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meetinghouse

noun

meet·​ing·​house ˈmē-tiŋ-ˌhau̇s How to pronounce meetinghouse (audio)
: a building used for public assembly and especially for Protestant worship

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web The Latter-day Saint temple with an adjoining meetinghouse will find a home somewhere on the site, which has now been mostly leveled. The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 June 2022 The meetinghouse serves two small neighborhood wards, which would be divided across three congressional districts. Luke Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Nov. 2021 To those who attended the farewell, the Wells Ward building is more than just a church meetinghouse. Saige Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Nov. 2021 Hesscock, who is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, lives across the street from her church meetinghouse, whose boundaries would also be sliced and diced by the new political boundaries. Luke Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 Nov. 2021 Some 35 years later, Kate Kelly, a Washington, D.C., activist also was excommunicated — at the same Virginia meetinghouse as Johnson — for her advocacy in pushing to ordain women to the faith’s all-male priesthood. The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Apr. 2022 Across the street from its worn wooden front doors, the First Church of Roxbury dominates the hilltop, a classic white-clapboard meetinghouse on a site first established by English settlers in 1631. Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2022 The church absorbed it into a six-acre property on Doverhill Drive, turning half of it into a meetinghouse with a parking lot. Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 May 2021 Not that every Mormon meetinghouse should look like a cathedral. The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Mar. 2021 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1632, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

meetinghouse

noun

meet·​ing·​house ˈmē-tiŋ-ˌhau̇s How to pronounce meetinghouse (audio)
: a building used for public assembly and especially for Protestant worship

meetinghouse

noun

1
as in house

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2
as in chapel

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