megachurch

American  

[meg-uh-church] / ˈmɛg əˌtʃɜrtʃ /

noun

1. an independent church with a very large membership in regular attendance, focusing on an evangelical or conservative Christian theology and offering a variety of educational and social activities.

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megachurch British  

/ ˈmɛɡəˌtʃɜːtʃ /

noun

1. a church, usually Protestant, with a very large congregation, typically housed in a complex offering sophisticated multimedia presentations and a range of secular facilities and services

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Example Sentences

What connects a medieval cathedral with a 21st-century megachurch?

From The Wall Street Journal

The question of “what links these places of worship” draws him to an eclectic exploration of a dozen churches—from the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem to St. Peter’s in Rome, a 17th-century shrine in Japan and a megachurch in Nigeria—to see what they have in common and what divides them.

From The Wall Street Journal

Mr. Butler-Gallie’s eye for paradox stands him in good stead again in his encounter with a megachurch in Nigeria, where he goes to see whether Christianity still offers “cause for hope.”

From The Wall Street Journal

They are Florida’s nondenominational Revive Church and Hawaii’s Pentecostal megachurch King’s Maui, according to Schatzline’s social media posts.

From Salon

He deployed one of his signature looks—wide-eyed, slightly lunatic—as a father spiraling into personal crisis in the first season of “The White Lotus” and a hapless militia leader in the megachurch comedy “The Righteous Gemstones.”

From The Wall Street Journal