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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
denomination
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
different
▪ Such a task would require separate volumes dealing with the different religious denominations.
▪ Their religious life is tolerant, pluralist, divided into different sects or denominations.
▪ Coins are arranged at the front, in different denominations.
▪ There was a handful of notes, of different denominations and a variety of origins.
▪ How close do you feel to Christians you know who belong to a different denomination?
▪ It has the advantage over membership that its significance is the same for different dates and denominations.
▪ She is an expert in exchange rates, with her cheques in many different currency denominations.
large
▪ Two large denomination bills on top, the rest a small sum.
▪ Yet the Catholic Church, with roughly 60 million members, remains by far the largest religious denomination in the United States.
▪ He produced a wad of large denomination bills and waved them in Franco's face.
▪ Firstly, bills are issued in large denominations.
▪ The Hussite Church, founded in 1920, was the second largest religious denomination in Czechoslovakia, with some 400,000 adherents.
▪ Inside was some cash, large denomination notes of exactly the sum agreed for Mr Hall's fencing.
major
▪ All major denominations strove to raise standards for lay preachers; methods chosen included free circulating libraries and denominational courses and examinations.
▪ But she had lived long enough to found one of the major pentecostal denominations, the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel.
▪ It is also the result of ecumenical co-operation between the major denominations.
other
▪ The same applies, of course, to other denominations and has been recognised in Britain as qualifying for state support.
▪ The ban doesn't apply to Methodists, rabbis and other denominations.
▪ One might ask how the church has grown if it is not out to recruit members from other denominations.
protestant
▪ Low profile Usually campaigns against gambling are the prerogative of the fiercer Protestant denominations.
▪ Although often identified with the rapidly growing fundamentalist, Pentecostal, and Protestant charismatic denominations, the movement is far wider.
▪ The majority Roman Catholic Church fills half of the airtime and over 30 Protestant denominations share the rest.
▪ It is sponsored by the old-line Protestant denominations, the eminently reasonable Congregationalists and Presbyterians and such.
religious
▪ Such a task would require separate volumes dealing with the different religious denominations.
▪ She also knows that other religious denominations do not always take a rigid stand against abortion.
▪ It must be stressed that the Zealots were not a religious sect or denomination.
▪ Yet the Catholic Church, with roughly 60 million members, remains by far the largest religious denomination in the United States.
▪ To provide specialist care on a selective or exclusive basis - for example, for families of a particular religious denomination or area.
▪ The Hussite Church, founded in 1920, was the second largest religious denomination in Czechoslovakia, with some 400,000 adherents.
▪ Consultation with the religious denominations was promised before new laws were adopted along the lines of the legislation of 1928.
small
▪ The small denominations and sects are province-wide, but are particularly strong in Belfast.
▪ In one pocket, the Adlai and Ike buttons; in the other, $ 200 in small denominations.
▪ This absence of small denominations would clearly limit the extent to which coinage could have been used.
various
▪ The cheapest way is to buy and send postal orders in various denominations which are acceptable in around 60 countries.
▪ Even at that age I was already fascinated by the similarities and contrasts among the various churches and denominations.
▪ In Darcy's Utopia church services of various denominations will exist, and blind eyes will no doubt be turned.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Christians of all denominations attended the conference.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Consultation with the religious denominations was promised before new laws were adopted along the lines of the legislation of 1928.
▪ Here at home there are denominations which, while they may boast a doctrinal comprehensiveness, manifest a cultural exclusiveness.
▪ Minimum denominations are $ 10, 000.
▪ More favoured here was the use of promissory notes and bills of exchange in large volume and down to low denominations.
▪ Now they number many millions drawn from almost every nation on earth, and almost every denomination too.
▪ She is an expert in exchange rates, with her cheques in many different currency denominations.
▪ The same applies, of course, to other denominations and has been recognised in Britain as qualifying for state support.
▪ They are at pains to insist that they are not called to be a denomination.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Denomination

Denomination \De*nom`i*na"tion\, n. [L. denominatio metonymy: cf. F. d['e]nomination a naming.]

  1. The act of naming or designating.

  2. 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.

    Those [qualities] which are classed under the denomination of sublime.
    --Burke.

  3. A class, or society of individuals, called by the same name; a sect; as, a denomination of Christians.

    Syn: Name; appellation; title. See Name.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
denomination

late 14c., "a naming, act of giving a name to," from Old French denominacion "nominating, naming," from Latin denominationem (nominative denominatio) "a calling by anything other than the proper name, metonymy," from denominare "to name," from de- "completely" (see de-) + nominare "to name" (see nominate). Meaning "a class" is from mid-15c. Monetary sense is 1650s; meaning "religious sect" is 1716.

Wiktionary
denomination

n. 1 (context uncountable English) The act of name or designate. 2 (context countable English) 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. 3 (context countable English) A class, or society of individuals, called by the same name; a sect or religious sub-goup; as, a religious denomination. 4 (context countable English) A unit in a series of units of weight, money, etc

WordNet
denomination

  1. n. 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]

Wikipedia
Denomination

Denomination may refer to:

  • Religious denomination, such as a:
    • Christian denomination
    • Jewish denomination
    • Islamic denomination
    • Hindu denominations
    • Buddhist denomination
  • Denominationalism, the division of one religion into separate groups, sects, schools of thought
  • Denomination (currency)
  • Denomination (postage stamp)
  • Protected designation of origin, a protected product name, usually by region of production
Denomination (currency)

Denomination is a proper description of a currency amount, usually for coins or banknotes. Denominations may also be used with other means of payment like gift cards. For example, five euros is the denomination of a five euro note. See also Redenomination.

Denomination (postage stamp)

In philately, the denomination is the "inscribed value of a stamp". For instance, if you visit the post office to buy a stamp to pay $1's worth of postage you will receive a stamp that has the value $1 printed on it in words or numbers.

The denomination is not the same as the value of a stamp on the philatelic market, which is usually different, and the denominations of a country's stamps and money do not necessarily match. For instance, there might be a 47c stamp to pay a particular postal rate but there is unlikely to be a 47c coin.

Usage examples of "denomination".

By this we are to understand, that people of this denomination were in antient times his priests.

Lefty Joe expertly lighted a match in spite of the roaring wind, and by this wild light the brakie read the denomination of the bill with a gasp.

On the other hand, when these elements are similar in two individuals they receive a common denomination.

Humankind, and were among the first in line to take the communion in order to calm any misgivings among the members of their denominations.

As practiced it was pretty much under the control of the different religious denominations and the information obtainable about inks from these sources is but fragmentary.

If I may refer to an institution, which used to be midway between the North and the South, and which I may speak of without suspicion of bias, an institution where the studies of metaphysics, the philosophy of history, the classics and pure science are as much insisted on as the study of applied sciences, the College of New Jersey at Princeton, the question in regard to a candidate for a professorship or instructorship, is not whether he was born North or South, whether he served in one army or another or in neither, whether he is a Democrat or a Republican or a Mugwump, what religious denomination he belongs to, but is he a scholar and has he a high character?

Certain dogmas are the absorbed thought of the sects which defend them: no fresh and independent thinking is to be expected on those subjects, no matter how purely fictitious these secretions of the brain of the denomination or of some ancient leader may be, no matter how glaringly out of keeping with the intelligence and liberty which reign in other realms of faith and feeling.

Piles of coins in confusing denominations rose in front of me, and I began worrying that the other players would decide to kill me and take my winnings and throw my body off the bluff into the river for the suckerfish to eat.

And, surely nothing can afford a stronger presumption, that any set of principles are true, and ought to be embraced, than to observe that they tend to the confirmation of true religion, and serve to confound the cavils of Atheists, Libertines, and Freethinkers of all denominations.

Terran bits of all denominations, Liaden coins, local money of half a dozen worlds, several rough-cut citrines, and a loop of pierced malachite.

The key to all modern history is in the mutual struggles of these two constitutions and the interests respectively associated with them, which created two societies on the same territory, and, for the most part, under the same national denomination.

Now, our monetary denominations are determined by the United States Treasury.

Like the comrades in the warehouse entrusted with denominations larger than fifty-dollar bills, these waves with ever-larger frequencies cannot contribute the amount of energy demanded by nineteenth-century physics.

At the head of the other party, from which through various denominations have sprung those who now call themselves Republicans, was Alexander Hamilton.

While we entertain due respect and fellowship for what is good and doing good in all denominations of religion, and shun whatever would isolate us from a true sense of goodness in others--we cannot serve mammon.