Meaning

• (authorship) One of the main sections into which the text of a book is divided.

  "Detective novel writers try to keep up the suspense until the last chapter."

• A section of a social or religious body.

• A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue.

• A decretal epistle.

• A location or compartment.

Meaning

• A Christian house of worship; a building where Christian religious services take place.

  "There is a lovely little church in the valley."

• Christians collectively seen as a single spiritual community; Christianity.

  "These worshippers make up the Church of Christ."

• A local group of people who follow the same Christian religious beliefs, local or general.

• A particular denomination of Christianity.

  "The Church of England separated from the Roman Catholic Church in 1534."

• (as bare noun) Christian worship held at a church; service.

• Organized religion in general or a specific religion considered as a political institution.

  "Many constitutions enshrine the separation of church and state."

• Any religious group.

  "She goes to a Wiccan church down the road."

• Assembly.