denomination

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Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

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noun a group of religious congregations having its own organization and a distinctive faith
noun a class of one kind of unit in a system of numbers or measures or weights or money
noun identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others

From Middle English denominacioun, from Old French denominacion, from Latin dēnōminātiō. By surface analysis, denominate + -ion.

Ministers of all denominations are "few and far between." — A New Guide for Emigrants to the West, John Mason Peck
We were enrolled under the denomination of the Eight Club. — The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Charles Dickens
The as was always the denomination of a copper coin. — An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith

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