ecumenical
Meaning of ecumenical
- representing a number of different Christian Churches.
he was a member of ecumenical committees
late 16th century (in the sense ‘belonging to the universal Church’): via late Latin from Greek oikoumenikos from oikoumenē ‘the (inhabited) earth’.
Information about ecumenical
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of ecumenical
ec-u-meni-cal
- It consists of 4 syllables and 10 chars.
- ecumenical is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
ecumenical synonyms
Meaning ecumenic:
Meaning cosmopolitan:
cosmopolitan, oecumenical, general, universal, worldwide
Meaning including a wide variety of things; all-embracing:
ecumenical antonyms
Meaning relating to or according to the principles of a particular religious denomination:
Translation of ecumenical
- German: ökumenisch
- French: oecuménique
- Italian: ecumenico
- Portuguese: ecuménico
- Spanish: ecuménico, ecuménica
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