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Bema

A platform from which speakers addressed an assembly.

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Area 76% connected

Any plane surface, as of the floor of a room or church, or of the ground within an inclosure; an open space in a building.

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Component part 1

Choir 70% connected

A band or organized company of singers, especially in church service.

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Containing whole 1

Church 70% connected

A building set apart for Christian worship.

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Chancel 92% connected

That part of a church, reserved for the use of the clergy, where the altar, or communion table, is placed.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Sanctuary 92% connected

A sacred place; a consecrated spot; a holy and inviolable site.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Altar noun · 86% connection

a raised structure on which gifts or sacrifices to a god are made

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Arcade noun · 86% connection

a structure composed of a series of arches supported by columns

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Arch noun · 86% connection

(architecture) a masonry construction (usually curved) for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it

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Arena noun · 86% connection

a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments

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Balance noun · 86% connection

equality of distribution

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Balcony noun · 86% connection

a platform projecting from the wall of a building and surrounded by a balustrade or railing or parapet

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Bascule noun · 86% connection

a structure or device in which one end is counterbalanced by the other (on the principle of the seesaw)

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Boarding noun · 86% connection

a structure of boards

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Body noun · 86% connection

the external structure of a vehicle; "the body of the car was badly rusted"

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Bowl noun · 86% connection

a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments

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Bridge noun · 86% connection

a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.

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Building noun · 86% connection

a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place; "there was a three-story building on the corne…

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Catchment noun · 86% connection

a structure in which water is collected (especially a natural drainage area)

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Coil noun · 86% connection

a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops; "a coil of rope"

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Colonnade noun · 86% connection

a structure composed of a series of arches supported by columns

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Column noun · 86% connection

a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument)

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Complex noun · 86% connection

a whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures

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Construction noun · 86% connection

a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts; "the structure consisted of a series of arches"; "she wore her hair i…

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Ad hominem unknown · 78% connection

A phrase applied to an appeal or argument addressed to the principles, interests, or passions of a man.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: platform, speakers, addressed, assembly.
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Address verb · 78% connection

To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit; as, he addressed a letter.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: platform, speakers, addressed, assembly.
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Addressee noun · 78% connection

One to whom anything is addressed.

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Affable adjective · 78% connection

Easy to be spoken to or addressed; receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; courteous; sociable.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: platform, speakers, addressed, assembly.
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Agora noun · 78% connection

An assembly; hence, the place of assembly, especially the market place, in an ancient Greek city.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: platform, speakers, addressed, assembly.
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Apopemptic adjective · 78% connection

Sung or addressed to one departing; valedictory; as, apoplectic songs or hymns.

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Ask verb · 78% connection

To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; -- often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed.

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Aulic noun · 78% connection

The ceremony observed in conferring the degree of doctor of divinity in some European universities. It begins by a harangue of the cha…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: platform, speakers, addressed, assembly.
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Banter verb · 78% connection

To address playful good-natured ridicule to, -- the person addressed, or something pertaining to him, being the subject of the jesting…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: platform, speakers, addressed, assembly.
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Blasphemy noun · 78% connection

An indignity offered to God in words, writing, or signs; impiously irreverent words or signs addressed to, or used in reference to, Go…

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Circular adjective · 78% connection

Addressed to a circle, or to a number of persons having a common interest; circulated, or intended for circulation; as, a circular let…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: platform, speakers, addressed, assembly.
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Collocutor noun · 78% connection

One of the speakers in a dialogue.

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Common adjective · 78% connection

being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vu…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: platform, speakers, addressed, assembly.
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Compellative noun · 78% connection

The name by which a person is addressed; an appellative.

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