Synonyms for Congregation
ˌkɒŋ grɪˈgeɪ ʃəncon·gre·ga·tion

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 7 votes

1. congregation

   Company, from the Latin cum, with, and panis, bread, denotes primarily the association of those who eat at a common table, or the persons so associated, table-companions, messmates, friends, and hence is widely extended to include any association of those united permanently or temporarily, for business, pleasure, festivity, travel, etc., or by sorrow, misfortune, or wrong; company may denote an indefinite number (ordinarily more than two), but less than a multitude; in the military sense a company is a limited and definite number of men; company implies more unity of feeling and purpose than crowd, and is a less formal and more familiar word than assemblage or assembly. An assemblage may be of persons or of objects; an assembly is always of persons. An assemblage is promiscuous and unorganized; an assembly is organized and united in some common purpose. A conclave is a secret assembly. A convocation is an assembly called by authority for a special purpose; the term convention suggests less dependence upon any superior authority or summons. A group is small in number and distinct in outline, clearly marked off from all else in space or time. Collection, crowd, gathering, group, and multitude have the unorganized and promiscuous character of the assemblage; the other terms come under the general idea of assembly. Congregation is now almost exclusively religious; meeting is often so used, but is less restricted, as we may speak of a meeting of armed men. Gathering refers to a coming together, commonly of numbers, from far and near; as, the gathering of the Scottish clans.

   Synonyms:
   assemblage, assembly, collection, company, conclave, concourse, conference, convention, convocation, crowd, gathering, group, host, meeting, multitude, throng

   Antonyms:
   dispersion, loneliness, privacy, retirement, seclusion, solitude

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. congregation, fold, faithfulnoun

   a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church

   Synonyms:
   flock, flexure, sheepcote, faithful, crease, plica, folding, fold, congregating, sheepfold, congregation, bend, sheep pen, crimp, plication

2. congregationnoun

   an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together

   "a congregation of children pleaded for his autograph"; "a great congregation of birds flew over"

   Synonyms:
   fold, faithful, congregating

3. congregation, congregatingnoun

   the act of congregating

   Synonyms:
   fold, faithful, congregation, congregating

Matched Categories

1. • Assembly
   • Collection

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. congregationnoun

   Synonyms:
   assembly, meeting, collection

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "congregation":

   congrégation, cnd, parish, nda, faithful

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1. Donald Trump:

   Tell your congregation that... we have 350 million people in our country. They're proud Americans, and they respect what we're doing, even those that you don't think so much, like us, respect us, want to be with us, they're respecting our fight. And we are in a fight. Religion in this country and religion all over the world, certain religions in particular, are under siege. We won't let that happen.

2. Lionel Fanthorpe:

   I look at my congregations instead of the TV screen, but when I heard this noise and members of the congregation moving towards the screen, I realized something was wrong, this was not what anybody could have ever imagined or wanted. Thankfully an engineer came to fix it and turn it off. It seems to be some kind of electronic accident.

3. Brian Houston:

   On any medical issue, we strongly encourage those in our church to follow the guidance of their doctors, while many of our staff, leadership and congregation have already received the Covid-19 vaccine, we recognize this is a personal decision for each individual to make with the counsel of medical professionals.

4. Donald Trump:

   I know for myself and many in my congregation what informs our decisions and convictions aren't what politicians say, we're guided by Scripture and a person named Jesus Christ, who he himself was a refugee long before that term refugee became more popular in our culture.

5. Alex Martin:

   I've been very pleased that the overwhelming reactions, both within the congregation and within the neighborhood and the folks in the community, has been overwhelmingly positive, people have been grateful to be given an opportunity to have conversations about how we can best serve those who are in great need, conversations about the sacred worth and dignity of all human life, even that which is often cast aside by society.