Dictionary Definition
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]
User Contributed Dictionary
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -eɪʃǝn
Noun
- The act of naming or designating.
- 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.
- A class, or society of individuals, called by the same name; a sect; as, a denomination of Christians.
- a unit in a series of units of weight, money, etc
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- What denomination is that money? They are all 50 euro notes.
Translations
act of naming, designation
- Finnish: nimitys
- French: dénomination
- German: Benennung
name, designation, or title
- Finnish: nimellisarvo
- French: désignation
- German: Bezeichnung
class or society with the same name, a sect
- Czech: denominace
- Finnish: tunnustuskunta, uskontokunta
- Greek: θρήσκευμα (thríscevma)
size of unit: money etc
- Croatian: apoen
- Greek: αξία (axía)
Extensive Definition
Denomination may refer to:
- Religious denomination, such as a:
- Denominationalism
- Denomination (currency)
- Denomination (postage stamp)
- Protected designation of origin, a protected product name, usually by region of production
- Any name can be considered a "denomination" of the thing being named.
denomination in Bulgarian: Деноминация
denomination in Czech: Denominace
(rozcestník)
denomination in Indonesian: Denominasi
denomination in Latvian: Denominācija
denomination in Russian: Деноминация
denomination in Simple English:
Denomination
denomination in Slovenian: Denominacija
denomination in Serbian:
Деноминација
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Amish,
Anglicanism,
Anglo-Catholicism, Arianism, Athanasianism, Boehmenism, Calvinism, Catholicism, Christian
Science, Confucianism, Congregationalism,
Conservative Judaism, Eleusinianism, Episcopalianism,
Erastianism, Ethical
Culture, Gnosticism,
Hinduism, Judaism, Lamaism, Laudianism, Laudism, Lingayat Hinduism,
Magianism, Mahayana
Buddhism, Mandaeism,
Methodism, Mithraism, Muhammadanism, New
Thought, Orthodox Christianity, Orthodox Judaism, Oxford Movement,
Parsiism, Parsism, Practical Christianity,
Puritanism, Quakerism, Reform Judaism,
Roman Catholicism, Rosicrucianism, Sabaeanism, Salvation Army,
Shiite Muslimism, Shin Buddhism, Shingon Buddhism, Shinto, Shintoism, Sikhism, Socinianism, Sufism, Taoism, Tendai Buddhism, Theosophy, Ubiquitarianism,
Uniatism, Unitarianism, Vaishnavite
Hinduism, Vajrayana Buddhism, Vedanta, Wahabiism, Yoga, Yogism, Zen, Zen Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, adherents, affiliation, allocation, antinomianism, appellation, appellative, assignment, attribution, baptism, binomen, binomial name, blood, body, branch, brand, breed, byword, calling, cast, character, characterization,
christening,
church, clan, class, classification, classifying, cognomen, color, communion, community, confession, connection, creed, cryptonym, cult, definition, denotation, description, designation, determination, differentiation,
disciples, disclosure, division, empty title, epithet, eponym, euonym, expression, faction, faith, feather, fellowship, fingering, fixing, followers, form, genre, genus, grade, grain, group, gymnosophy, handle, hint, homoiousianism, honorific, hyponym, identification, identifying, ilk, indication, indicativeness, ism, kidney, kin, kind, label, latitudinarianism,
line, lot, make, manifestation, manner, mark, meaning, mold, moniker, name, namesake, naming, nature, nicknaming, nomen, nomen nudum, number, offshoot, order, organization, party, persuasion, phylum, picking out, pinning
down, pointing,
pointing out, pointing to, precision, proper name, proper
noun, quietism,
race, religious order,
schism, school, scientific name, secret
name, sect, sectarism, segment, selection, shape, show, showing, signification, size, society, sort, species, specification, stamp, stipulation, strain, stripe, style, styling, suggestion, symptomaticness,
tag, tagging, tautonym, term, terming, the like of, the likes
of, title, tribe, trinomen, trinomial name,
type, unit, value, variety, version