Christendom

See also christendom

English

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Etymology

Old English cristendōm, corresponding to Christian +‎ -dom.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈkɹɪsn̩dəm/ SAMPA: /"krIsn=d@m/

Proper noun

Christendom

1. (obsolete) The state of being a Christian. [9th-17th c.]
   • 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book X:

     And also Sir Palomydes avowed never to take full Crystyndom untyll that he had done seven batayles within lystys.

2. The Christian world. [from 14th c.]
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 503:

     Wessex was facing new barbarians, apparently intent on destroying everything that Christendom meant for England.

Related terms

• Christ
• Christianity

Translations

the Christian world

Bosnian: hrišćanstvo (bs) n., kršćanstvo (bs) n. Chinese: Mandarin: 基督教 (cmn) (Jīdūjiào), 基督教世界 (Jīdūjiào shìjiè) Croatian: kršćanstvo (hr) n. Dutch: christenheid (nl) f. Esperanto: kristanaro (eo) Finnish: kristikunta (fi) French: chrétienté (fr) f. German: Christenheit (de) f. Greek: Χριστιανοσύνη (el) (Khristianosýnē) Italian: cristianità (it) f. Korean: Hangul: 기독교계 Romaja: gidokgyogye

Macedonian: христијанство (mk) (hristijánstvo) n. Romanian: creștinătate (ro) f. Russian: христианство (ru) (xristiánstvo) n. Serbian: Cyrillic: хришћанство n. Roman: hrišćanstvo n. Spanish: cristiandad (es) f. Turkish: Hıristiyanlık (tr) Volapük: kritanef (vo)