Sample sentences for DENOMINATION

2 meanings

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1 —as in:
the Baptist denomination

Definition

a group of religious congregations (such as churches, temples, masques...) sharing distinctive beliefs and belonging to the same organization

or more rarely (and less formally): any categorization of people

Downtown synagogues, mosques and churches of various denominations joined to assist the homeless.

denominations = a group of religious congregations (such as churches, temples, masques...) sharing distinctive beliefs and belonging to the same organization

Other Uses (with this meaning)

Billy Graham transcended denomination and became a spokesperson for most American Christians.

denomination = a group of religious congregations (such as churches, temples, masques...) sharing distinctive beliefs and belonging to the same organization

or more rarely (and less formally): any categorization of people

We shared a nondenominational prayer before beginning.

(Editor's note: The prefix "non-" in nondenominational means not and reverses the meaning of denominational. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.)

I had no idea what sort of denomination Orthodox Eclectic was, but I nodded like we had a big group of them back in Sylvan.
Sue Monk Kidd -- The Secret Life of Bees

denomination = group of associated churches

It is not there that respectable people of any denomination can do most good; and it certainly is not there that the influence of the clergy can be most felt.
Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park

denomination = a group of religious congregations (such as churches, temples, masques...) sharing distinctive beliefs and belonging to the same organization

The chaplain came around and asked if we wanted to come to nondenominational services.
Walter Dean Myers -- Fallen Angels

nondenominational = not favoring one religious group over another

He stood up and said his Denomination believed in being kind to everybody; kind to animals and such.
Forest Carter -- Education of Little Tree

denomination = group of associated churches

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or (smiling) of something else.
Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park

denomination = a group of religious congregations (such as churches, temples, masques...) sharing distinctive beliefs and belonging to the same organization

This is the hospital's idea of nondenominational.
Gayle Forman -- If I Stay

Although her clientele was nondenominational, she'd garnered a word-of-mouth reputation among temple sisterhoods, and patrons came from as far away as New York and Connecticut and even Maryland to relax and rejuvenate.
Jodi Picoult -- Change of Heart

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2 —as in:
bills of a large denomination

Definition

a shared value printed on different pieces of currency — such as $20 bills

or more rarely: a unit of measure belonging to other systems of measurement

She flashed a fistful of bills of large denominations.

denominations = high numbers (on the currency bills—such as $100 and $50 rather than $1 and $5)

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Less commonly:

Much more rarely, denomination can be used to refer to a non-measurement categorization such as all the diamonds in a deck of cards. Even more rarely, it can refer to the act of assigning something to a category.

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