Denomination : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Denomination	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
denomination n a group of religious congregations having its own organization and a distinctive faith a class of one kind of unit in a system of numbers or measures or weights or money; "he flashed a fistful of bills of large denominations" identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others Synonym(s): appellation, denomination, designation, appellative
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Denomination \Denom`ina"tion\, n. [L. denominatio metonymy: cf. F. d[82]nomination a naming.] 1. The act of naming or designating. 2. That by which anything is denominated or styled; an epithet; a name, designation, or title; especially, a general name indicating a class of like individuals; a category; as, the denomination of units, or of thousands, or of fourths, or of shillings, or of tons. Those [qualities] which are classed under the denomination of sublime. --Burke. 3. A class, or society of individuals, called by the same name; a sect; as, a denomination of Christians. Syn: Name; appellation; title. See {Name}.