ecclesia
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 8
/ɪˈkli.zi.ə/
Definition of ecclesia
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- (historical)The public legislative assembly of the Athenians.
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noun
- (historical)The public legislative assembly of the Athenians.
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A church, either as a body or as a building.
“The 1880s were no more peaceful for the ecclesias than had been the 1870s. Generally membership was increasing; so much so in London that two new ecclesias were formed, leaving about 200 in the older ecclesia at Islington.”
- The congregation, the group of believers, symbolic body or building.
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Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin ecclēsia, from Ancient Greek ἐκκλησία (ekklēsía). Doublet of Eccles.
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