n. | 1. | The act of naming or designating. |
2. | That by which anything is denominated or styled; an epithet; a name, designation, or title; especially, a general name indicating a class of like individuals; a category; | |
3. | A class, or society of individuals, called by the same name; a sect; |
Noun | 1. | denomination - a group of religious congregations having its own organization and a distinctive faith |
2. | denomination - a class of one kind of unit in a system of numbers or measures or weights or money; "he flashed a fistful of bills of large denominations" | |
3. | denomination - identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others |