Antonyms 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.

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

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

Matched Categories

1. • Assembly
   • Collection

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms: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, 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, congregating

How to use congregation in a sentence?

1. Ira Angustain:

   John Cheng was kind, generous and fun-loving. John Cheng loved God and John Cheng family with a passion. My wife and I and our church body were so honored to have Dr. John as a part of our congregation. Dr. John made me a better pastor, friend, and person just by having him in my life, this is not hyperbole.

2. Bahram Baloch:

   Nations are never destroyed due to casual accidents. They are destroyed when their congregation perception ends.

3. Ianther Mills:

   His careless act of violence and hatred, targeted at a congregation of individuals with a lived history of social and racial injustice, had the presumably desired effect, asbury was forced to reckon with the very tangible evidence that we continue to live in a world where people radicalize hate based upon race and skin color.

4. 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.

5. Pope Francis:

   But when Pope Benedict became Pope Francis, the first thing( he said was) bring me this from the archives and Pope Benedict began, pope Benedict had the courage to dissolve a women's congregation that had a certain level because this slavery of women had entered, even sexual slavery, by clerics or by the founder.

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