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church
Noun
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A church is a building where Christians gather and pray to God.
The church across the street has a service at 10 am.
Christian churches and Buddhist temples exist alongside each other.
Though she prayed and attended church, as she got older she often wondered why God didn't do anything.
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A church is a particular kind of religious belief or power.
They asked for the help of the Catholic Church.
At the time I moved from the Baptist Church to the Pentecostal Church I was about sixteen years old.
Jesus Christ established a church in which men and women were equal.
This country was founded on the idea of separation of church and state.
People tend to leave because they don't accept certain church teachings.
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A Christian religious organization, local or general.
The Church (referring to the dominant religious organization of a particular time or place).
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Church is a time when Christians go to a church.
I'll be there after church.
Church
Proper Noun
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(used with "the") A specific church denomination such as the Catholic Church.
The Catholic Church is just around the corner.
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A surname.
Mr.Church donated the painting.
mass
Noun
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A measure of how much material is in something.
The Earth has much more mass than the moon.
The spacesuit weighed 75 pounds on Earth but here in outer space it weighed nothing, although its mass was exactly the same.
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Much material.
A mass of dirty branches stopped the river.
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A Christian ceremony in memory of .
He goes to mass every Sunday.
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A crowd of people.
A mass of protesters gathered at city hall.