Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun holy_sacrament

1 sense of holy sacrament

Sense 1
Holy Eucharist, Eucharist, sacrament of the Eucharist, Holy Sacrament, Liturgy, Eucharistic liturgy, Lord's Supper -- (a Christian sacrament commemorating the Last Supper by consecrating bread and wine)
       => sacrament -- (a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction)