Definition of meetinghouse in US English:
meetinghouse
(also meeting house)
nounˈmēdiNGˌhousˈmidɪŋˌhaʊsˈmidɪŋˌhaʊs
1A Quaker place of worship.
Example sentencesExamples
- I particularly enjoy the Sunday silence at my Quakers meeting house, which gives me much restoration of spirit.
- At 12 years of age we find him running a school in the barn of the Quaker meeting house.
- A large Quaker meeting house still stands in the historic district of the city.
- Dhafir spoke everywhere from mosques to community centers to Quaker meeting houses about the devastation the sanctions caused.
- The Quakers' York meeting house is in Friargate, off Clifford Street, and warden Rosemary Stubbs revealed they had lost money as a venue for meetings because of groups moving out of town.
- 1.1North American historical A Protestant place of worship.
Example sentencesExamples
- After all, Price was a Protestant dissenter, and the old Jewry, was a Protestant meeting house.
- There was difficulty in a number of places over sites for Presbyterian meeting houses.
Definition of meetinghouse in US English:
meetinghouse
(also meeting house)
nounˈmēdiNGˌhousˈmidɪŋˌhaʊs
1A Quaker place of worship.
Example sentencesExamples
- I particularly enjoy the Sunday silence at my Quakers meeting house, which gives me much restoration of spirit.
- At 12 years of age we find him running a school in the barn of the Quaker meeting house.
- A large Quaker meeting house still stands in the historic district of the city.
- Dhafir spoke everywhere from mosques to community centers to Quaker meeting houses about the devastation the sanctions caused.
- The Quakers' York meeting house is in Friargate, off Clifford Street, and warden Rosemary Stubbs revealed they had lost money as a venue for meetings because of groups moving out of town.
- 1.1North American historical A Protestant place of worship.
Example sentencesExamples
- After all, Price was a Protestant dissenter, and the old Jewry, was a Protestant meeting house.
- There was difficulty in a number of places over sites for Presbyterian meeting houses.