denomination

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: de=nom=i=na=tion

OXFORD DICTIONARY

denomination, n.
1 a Church or religious sect.
2 a class of units within a range or sequence of numbers, weights, money, etc. (money of small denominations).
3 a a name or designation, esp. a characteristic or class name. b a class or kind having a specific name.
4 the rank of a playing-card within a suit, or of a suit relative to others.

Idiom

denominational education education according to the principles of a Church or sect.

Derivative

denominational adj.

Etymology

ME f. OF denomination or L denominatio (as DENOMINATE)

THESAURUS

denomination

Amish, Anglicanism, Anglo-Catholicism, Arianism, Athanasianism, Boehmenism, Calvinism, Catholicism, Christian Science, Confucianism, Congregationalism, Conservative Judaism, Eleusinianism, Episcopalianism, Erastianism, Ethical Culture, Gnosticism, Hinduism, Judaism, Lamaism, Laudianism, Laudism, Lingayat Hinduism, Magianism, Mahayana Buddhism, Mandaeism, Methodism, Mithraism, Muhammadanism, New Thought, Orthodox Christianity, Orthodox Judaism, Oxford Movement, Parsiism, Parsism, Practical Christianity, Puritanism, Quakerism, Reform Judaism, Roman Catholicism, Rosicrucianism, Sabaeanism, Salvation Army, Shiite Muslimism, Shin Buddhism, Shingon Buddhism, Shinto, Shintoism, Sikhism, Socinianism, Sufism, Taoism, Tendai Buddhism, Theosophy, Ubiquitarianism, Uniatism, Unitarianism, Vaishnavite Hinduism, Vajrayana Buddhism, Vedanta, Wahabiism, Yoga, Yogism, Zen, Zen Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, adherents, affiliation, allocation, antinomianism, appellation, appellative, assignment, attribution, baptism, binomen, binomial name, blood, body, branch, brand, breed, byword, calling, cast, character, characterization, christening, church, clan, class, classification, classifying, cognomen, color, communion, community, confession, connection, creed, cryptonym, cult, definition, denotation, description, designation, determination, differentiation, disciples, disclosure, division, empty title, epithet, eponym, euonym, expression, faction, faith, feather, fellowship, fingering, fixing, followers, form, genre, genus, grade, grain, group, gymnosophy, handle, hint, homoiousianism, honorific, hyponym, identification, identifying, ilk, indication, indicativeness, ism, kidney, kin, kind, label, latitudinarianism, line, lot, make, manifestation, manner, mark, meaning, mold, moniker, name, namesake, naming, nature, nicknaming, nomen, nomen nudum, number, offshoot, order, organization, party, persuasion, phylum, picking out, pinning down, pointing, pointing out, pointing to, precision, proper name, proper noun, quietism, race, religious order, schism, school, scientific name, secret name, sect, sectarism, segment, selection, shape, show, showing, signification, size, society, sort, species, specification, stamp, stipulation, strain, stripe, style, styling, suggestion, symptomaticness, tag, tagging, tautonym, term, terming, the like of, the likes of, title, tribe, trinomen, trinomial name, type, unit, value, variety, version

ROGET THESAURUS

denomination

Nomenclature

N nomenclature, naming, nuncupation, nomination, baptism, orismology, onomatopoeia, antonomasia, name, appelation, appelative, designation, title, heading, rubric, caption, denomination, by-name, epithet, style, proper name, praenomen, agnomen, cognomen, patronymic, surname, cognomination, eponym, compellation, description, antonym, empty title, empty name, handle to one's name, namesake, term, expression, noun, byword, convertible terms, technical term, cant, named, hight, ycleped, known as, what one may well, call fairly, call properly, call fitly, nuncupatory, nuncupative, cognominal, titular, nominal, orismological, beggar'd all description.

Class

N class, division, category, categorema, head, order, section, department, subdepartment, province, domain, kind, sort, genus, species, variety, family, order, kingdom, race, tribe, caste, sept, clan, breed, type, subtype, kit, sect, set, subset, assortment, feather, kidney, suit, range, gender, sex, kin, manner, description, denomination, designation, rubric, character, stamp predicament, indication, particularization, selection, specification, similarity.

Party

N party, faction, side, denomination, communion, set, crew, band, horde, posse, phalanx, family, clan, team, tong, council, community, body, fellowship, sodality, solidarity, confraternity, familistere, familistery, brotherhood, sisterhood, knot, gang, clique, ring, circle, group, crowd, in-crowd, coterie, club, casino, machine, Tammany, Tammany Hall, corporation, corporate body, guild, establishment, company, copartnership, partnership, firm, house, joint concern, joint-stock company, cahoot, combine, trust, society, association, institute, institution, union, trades union, league, syndicate, alliance, Verein, Bund, Zollverein, combination, Turnverein, league offensive and defensive, alliance offensive and defensive, coalition, federation, confederation, confederacy, junto, cabal, camarilla, camorra, brigue, freemasonry, party spirit, Confederates, Conservatives, Democrats, Federalists, Federals, Freemason, Knight Templar, Kuklux, Kuklux Klan, KKK, Liberals, Luddites, Republicans, Socialists, Tories, Whigs staff, dramatis personae, in league, in partnership, in alliance, bonded together, banded together, linked, joined together, embattled, confederated, federative, joint, hand in hand, side by side, shoulder to shoulder, en masse, in the same boat.