kirk

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See also: Kirk and kırk

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Etymology

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Inherited from Northern Middle English kyrke, from either Old Norse kirkja or Old English ċiriċe. Doublet of church.

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kirk (plural kirks)

  1. (Northern England and Scotland) A church.
    • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
      When she sang in the kirk, folk have told me that they had a foretaste of the musick of the New Jerusalem, and when she came in by the village of Caulds old men stottered to their doors to look at her.
    • 1941 January, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The Scottish Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 3:
      But long, long ago an enthusiastic reporter called it a "fairy palace," and the office building on the west side was once a church. Hence, in North British phraseology, to "gang tae the Kirk" meant to be had up on the carpet.

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Scots

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Etymology

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Inherited from Northern Middle English kyrke, from either Old Norse kirkja or Old English cirice.

Noun

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kirk (plural kirks)

  1. church
  2. temple

Verb

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kirk (third-person singular simple present kirks, present participle kirkin, simple past kirkit, past participle kirkit)

  1. (transitive) to bring to church for burial

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