Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun liturgy
2 senses of liturgy
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)
Sense 2
liturgy -- (a rite or body of rites prescribed for public worship)
=> rite, religious rite -- (an established ceremony prescribed by a religion; "the rite of baptism")