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Denomination - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Denomination : (noun)
1: a group of religious congregations having its own
organization and a distinctive faith
2: a class of one kind of unit in a system of numbers or
measures or weights or money; "he flashed a fistful of
bills of large denominations"
3: identifying word or words by which someone or something is
called and classified or distinguished from others [syn: appellation,
designation, appellative]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Denomination : \De*nom`i*na"tion\, n. [L. denominatio metonymy:
cf. F. d['e]nomination a naming.]
1. The act of naming or designating.
2. That by which anything is denominated or styled; an
epithet; a name, designation, or title; especially, a
general name indicating a class of like individuals; a
category; as, the denomination of units, or of thousands,
or of fourths, or of shillings, or of tons.
Those [qualities] which are classed under the
denomination of sublime. --Burke.
3. A class, or society of individuals, called by the same
name; a sect; as, a denomination of Christians.
Syn: Name; appellation; title. See Name.
Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)
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