(n): an institution to express belief in a divine power
(n): a place for public (especially Christian) worship
(n): any building where congregations gather for prayer
(n): a service conducted in a house of worship
(n): the act of public worship following prescribed rules
(n): the body of people who attend or belong to a particular local church
(n): a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity
(v): perform a special church rite or service for
(v): perform a function
I love Thomas Paine.
"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church." - 'The Age of Reason' by Thomas Paine, 1794.