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meetinghouse

noun

Definition of meetinghouse

as in house

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Recent Examples of meetinghouse Two people were killed, and six others were injured in a shooting outside a meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Wednesday night. — Washington Examiner Staff, The Washington Examiner, 8 Jan. 2026 The gunfire erupted in the parking lot of the Rose Park 5th Ward meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, where mourners had gathered for a memorial service Wednesday night, the Salt Lake Tribune reported. — Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 8 Jan. 2026 The shooting took place in the parking lot of a meetinghouse of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, widely known as the Mormon church. — Hannah Schoenbaum, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2026 There was a separate service Tuesday evening at LDS’ Flint meetinghouse with David Bednar, a senior leader in the LDS Church who’s part of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, said Gary Geiger, a LDS member in metro Detroit who is a spokesman for the church in Michigan. — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Freep.com, 2 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for meetinghouse

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Noun

The real Johnny Drama stayed at your house for months, and one of the others drove your kids to school.

— Lane Brown, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2026
First ring, first row of the Koch Theater is widely considered to have the best seats in the house.

— Fiorella Valdesolo, Curbed, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of house

Noun

The vapors that had risen from warm bodies in the pews would have carried syllables mixed with candle-soot, distilled as condensation on the chapel windows.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026
Combs spends his time working in the chapel library and participating in the prison’s residential drug abuse program.

— Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of chapel

Noun

So Kelce reported to camp in terrific shape and looking svelte and nimble despite all the hoopla, especially around the wedding.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 22 Sep. 2026
Miami is expected to sign at least one more player to an Exhibit 10 deal before the start of training camp.

— Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of camp

Noun

The shrine remains open today, with a statue honoring Tong inside alongside figures representing other traditional roles in porcelain-making.

— ABC News, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026
In parks and on streetcorners, impromptu shrines gave faces and names to almost 3,000 lives lost.

— Robert W. Snyder, New York Daily News, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of shrine

Noun

In the city hall atrium about 60 people sat and stood watching the public hearing.

— Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 22 Sep. 2026
During the town hall, Caudle told a sailor who was evacuated from Bahrain that officials are working on retrieving belongings that were left behind because the Navy does not have imminent plans to return to the same level of footprint on the base.

— Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of hall

Noun

That year, the retailer also completed the renovation of the three levels dedicated to women’s fashion of its crown jewel, the Milan flagship overlooking the Duomo cathedral.

— Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 21 Sep. 2026
Miss Manners will point out, however, that daytime wedding wear in a cathedral is still formal.

— Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of cathedral

Noun

In his first major interview about his tell-all memoir, Tyler Hassen describes the culture clash surrounding DOGE’s mission and the backlash that followed.

— Elizabeth Dwoskin, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2026
The story spans 1955 to 1971, tracing the lead-up to R&AW’s formation and its first mission during the 1971 war against Pakistan.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 21 Sep. 2026

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