collection plate

See also: collection-plate

English

Alternative forms

• collection-plate

Noun

collection plate (plural collection plates)

1. A plate or other container passed among the worshipers attending a Christian church service, into which donations of money are placed.
   • 1911, Lucy Maud Montgomery, The Story Girl, ch. 5 "Peter goes to church",

     Elder Frewen, a tall, pale man, with long, sandy side-whiskers, appeared at the door of our pew with the collection plate.

Translations

plate or other container passed among worshipers

• Finnish: kolehtilautanen (plate), kolehtihaavi (fi) (bag)
• German: Kollektenkorb m, Klingelbeutel (de) m
• Polish: taca (pl) f
• Swahili: upatu

See also

• poor box

References

• “collection plate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.