English
Noun
Orthodox Church (countable and uncountable, plural Orthodox Churches)
- The Eastern Orthodox Church.
- Holonyms: Christianity, Church
- Meronyms: Greek Orthodox Church, Russian Orthodox Church, Serbian Orthodox Church
- The Eastern body of Christendom.
- That part of Christendom apart from the Eastern Catholic Churches.
- Any Church that self-designates as Orthodox.
Translations
the Eastern body of Christendom
- Albanian: kisha ortodokse f
- Arabic: الْكَنِيسَة الأُرْثُوذُكْسِيَّة f (al-kanīsa l-ʔurṯūḏuksiyya)
- Armenian: ուղղափառ եկեղեցի (uġġapʻaṙ ekeġecʻi)
- Azerbaijani: pravoslav kilsəsi
- Basque: Eliza ortodoxoa
- Belarusian: правасла́ўная царква́ f (pravasláwnaja carkvá)
- Breton: Iliz Ortodoks f
- Bulgarian: правосла́вна църква́ f (pravoslávna cǎrkvá)
- Catalan: Església Ortodoxa f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 正教會 / 正教会 (zhèngjiàohuì)
- Czech: pravoslavná církev f
- Danish: Den ortodokse kirke c
- Dutch: Orthodoxe Kerk f
- Esperanto: Ortodoxa Eklesio
- Estonian: õigeusu kirik
- Finnish: ortodoksinen kirkko
- French: Église orthodoxe (fr) f
- Galician: Igrexa Ortodoxa f
- Georgian: მართლმადიდებელი ეკლესია (martlmadidebeli eḳlesia)
- German: orthodoxe Kirche f, Orthodoxe Kirche f
- Greek: Ορθόδοξη Εκκλησία (el) f (Orthódoxi Ekklisía)
- Hebrew: נַצְרוּת אוֹרְתּוֹדוֹקְסִית (he) f (natsrút ortodoksít)
- Hungarian: ortodox egyház, pravoszláv egyház
- Icelandic: Rétttrúnaðarkirkjan f
- Indonesian: Gereja Ortodoks
- Irish: Eaglais Cheartchreidmheach f
- Italian: Chiesa ortodossa f
- Japanese: 正教会 (ja) (せいきょうかい, seikyōkai)
- Kazakh: православие шіркеуі (pravoslavie şırkeuı)
- Korean: 정교회(正敎會) (jeonggyohoe)
- Kyrgyz: ортодокс чиркөөсү (ortodoks cirköösü)
- Latin: Ecclēsia Orthodoxa f
- Latvian: pareizticīgā baznīca f
- Lithuanian: stačiatikių bažnyčia f
- Macedonian: православна црква f (pravoslavna crkva)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: Den ortodokse kirke m or f, Den ortodokse kirken m, Den ortodokse kirka f
- Nynorsk: Den ortodokse kyrkja f
- Ottoman Turkish: شرق كلیساسی (şarq kilisesi)
- Persian: کلیسای ارتدکس (kelisâ-ye ortodoks)
- Polish: cerkiew prawosławna f
- Portuguese: Igreja Ortodoxa f
- Romanian: biserica ortodoxă f
- Russian: правосла́вная це́рковь f (pravoslávnaja cérkovʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: православна црква f
- Roman: pravoslavna crkva f
- Slovak: pravoslávna cirkev f
- Slovene: pravoslavna cerkev f
- Spanish: Iglesia ortodoxa f
- Swedish: ortodoxa kyrkan c
- Turkish: Ortodoks Kilisesi
- Ukrainian: правосла́вна це́рква f (pravoslávna cérkva)
- Welsh: Eglwys Uniongred f
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Further reading
- “Orthodox Church”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “Orthodox Church”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “Orthodox Church”, in Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
- “Orthodox Church”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- “Orthodox Church”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “Orthodox Church” (US) / “Orthodox Church” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
- “Orthodox Church”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.