noun
Usage: usually capitalized W & often capitalized C
1. : the churches of the West and especially of western Europe and the Americas : Western Christianity
2. : one of the churches of Western Christianity (as the church of the Latin Patriarchate)
noun
Usage: usually capitalized W & often capitalized C
1. : the churches of the West and especially of western Europe and the Americas : Western Christianity
2. : one of the churches of Western Christianity (as the church of the Latin Patriarchate)
Webster's New International English Dictionary. Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012