(US, religion, Christianity) Alternative form of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [The major denomination of the Latter Day Saint movement, founded in the United States by Joseph Smith; the Mormon Church.]
The (also called the LDS movement, LDS restorationist movement, or Smith–Rigdon movement) the collection of independent church groups that trace their origins to a Christian Restorationist movement founded by Joseph Smith in the late 1820s.