Meaning

1 senses
  1. A plate or other container passed among the worshipers attending a Christian church service, into which donations of money are placed.

    pass the collection plate

    1911, Lucy Maud Montgomery, The Story Girl, ch. 5 "Peter goes to church", Elder Frewen, a tall, pale man, with long, sandy side-whiskers, appeared at the door of our pew with the collection plate.

    Kollektenkorb, Klingelbeutel

More definitions
  • a shallow receptacle for collection in church

Translations

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By meaning 1
plate or other container passed among worshipers:

Forms

plural: collection plates

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a shallow receptacle for collection in church:plate

Word family

2 related words

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