religious order
An organized community of people who live in some way set apart from society in…An organized community of people who live in some way set apart from society in accordance with their specific religious devotion, usually characterized by the principles of the founder's religious practice.
» Tom belonged to a religious order.
Том принадлежал к религиозному ордену.
Meaning
1 sensesAn organized community of people who live in some way set apart from society in accordance with their specific religious devotion, usually characterized by the principles of the founder's religious practice.
Ordensgemeinschaft, geistlicher Orden
- a subdivision of a larger religious group
Examples
3 sentencesTom belonged to a religious order.
ruТом принадлежал к религиозному ордену.
Boris works as a demonologist for a religious order.
"Would you rather sleep with me, or would you rather join a religious order?" "No, I'd rather run away!"
Translations
4 languagesBy meaning 1
Forms
plural: religious orders| Singular | religious order |
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Synonyms
2 synonyms- a subdivision of a larger religious group:sectreligious sect