Noun: denomination di,nó-mu'ney-shun
- A group of religious congregations having its own organization and a distinctive faith
"Baptists and Methodists are examples of Protestant denominations"
- A class of one kind of unit in a system of numbers, measures, 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
"The denomination 'sedan' refers to a specific type of car";
- appellation, designation, appellative
Derived forms: denominations
Type of: category, class, family, name, NGO, nongovernmental organisation [Brit], nongovernmental organization
Encyclopedia: Denomination