Meaning

1 senses

  1. (Northern England, Scotland)A church.

    a Scottish church

Examples

5 sentences

  1. Did JD Vance kill Charlie Kirk?

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  2. Charlie Kirk was a far-right firebrand.

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  3. The person who killed Charlie Kirk is the same who killed JFK.

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  4. The actor Kirk Douglas was dishing up plates of food, as he does here every Thanksgiving.

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  5. The Kirk of Star Trek: The Original Series was nothing like the way he's written today.

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Origin

Inherited from Northern Middle English kirke, borrowed from Old Norse kirkja, borrowed fro

Inherited from Northern Middle English kirke, borrowed from Old Norse kirkja, borrowed from Old English ċiriċe, from Proto-West Germanic *kirikā, borrowed from Koine Greek κῡρῐᾰκόν (kūrĭăkón), a nominalization of κῡριακός (kūriakós), or from Ancient Greek -ον (-on). Doublet of church.

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Forms

plural: kirks
Singularkirk
Pluralkirks

regular

Word family

10 related words
Derivedkirkbuzzerkirkgarthkirkgoerkirklandkirklikekirkmaisterkirkmankirk-sessionkirktownkirkyard

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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