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meeting house
[ mee-ting hous ]
noun
- a house or other building for communal gathering, especially a place of Protestant worship. Common in Colonial America for both public business and religious worship, a meeting house today is usually a place of worship for Quakers, Mennonites, Mormons, or certain other nonconformist denominations.
meeting house
noun
- the place in which certain religious groups, esp Quakers, hold their meetings for worship
- Also calledwharepuni a large Māori tribal hall
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Word History and Origins
Origin of meeting house1
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Example Sentences
Growing up, his home doubled as a meeting house for precinct captains.
They met at the Quaker Meeting House, where their attorney was a member.
We had some trouble in finding Jordans, the little meeting-house near which is the grave of the Quaker philanthropist.
Directly at the foot of a steep hill we came upon the meeting-house, nestling in a wooded valley.
All around the meeting-house is a forest of great trees, and no other building is in the immediate vicinity.
I seemed to be standing in a meeting-house; the service was ended and nearly every one had gone home.
A building located somewhere between Everton-gardens and Spring-gardens was first used as a meeting-house by them.
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