CONGREGATION: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for CONGREGATION?

Need another word that means the same as “congregation”? Find 31 synonyms and 30 related words for “congregation” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Congregation” are: faithful, fold, congregating, parishioners, parish, churchgoers, flock, following, followers, adherents, believers, fellowship, communicants, laity, brethren, brothers and sisters, souls, gathering, assembly, swarm, bevy, herd, pack, group, body, crowd, mass, multitude, horde, host, mob

Congregation as a Noun

Definitions of "Congregation" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “congregation” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• A group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church.
• A group of people obeying a common religious rule but under less solemn vows than members of the older religious orders.
• A flock of plovers.
• A group of people assembled for religious worship.
• (in some universities) a general assembly of resident senior members.
• (in the Roman Catholic Church) a permanent committee of the College of Cardinals.
• The act of congregating.
• A gathering or collection of people, animals, or things.
• A group of communities within a religious order sharing particular historical or regional links.
• A group of people regularly attending a particular place of worship.
• The action of gathering together in a crowd.
• An assemblage of people or animals or things collected together.

Synonyms of "Congregation" as a noun (31 Words)

adherents	Someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another.
assembly	A public facility to meet for open discussion. The tail assembly of the aircraft.
believers	A supporter who accepts something as true.
bevy	A group of roe deer, quails, or larks. He was surrounded by a bevy of beauties in bathing attire.
body	A woman s close fitting stretch garment for the upper body fastening at the crotch. The body of the car was badly rusted.
brethren	(plural) the lay members of a male religious order. Our brethren in the popular press.
brothers and sisters	A title given to a monk and used as form of address.
churchgoers	A religious person who goes to church regularly.
communicants	A person entitled to receive Communion.
congregating	The act of congregating.
crowd	An informal body of friends. He still hangs out with the same crowd.
faithful	Those who are faithful to a particular religion or political party. The struggle to please the party faithful.
fellowship	The status of a fellow of a college or society. They valued fun and good fellowship as the cement of the community.
flock	A number of domestic animals, especially sheep, goats, or geese, that are kept together. A flock of gulls.
fold	A line or crease produced in paper or cloth as the result of folding it. He gave the napkins a double fold.
followers	A group of followers or enthusiasts.
following	The act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture. The following are both grammatically correct sentences.
gathering	The act of gathering something. A family gathering.
group	Any number of entities (members) considered as a unit. A group of boys approached.
herd	A group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind that are herded by humans. The children resembled a fairy herd.
horde	A large group of people. Tartar hordes.
host	A person who acts as host at formal occasions makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers. Innsbruck once played host to the Winter Olympics.
laity	Lay people, as distinct from the clergy.
mass	A sequence of prayers constituting the Christian Eucharistic rite. Seaside towns that catered for the masses.
mob	A loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities. The age old fear that the mob may organize to destroy the last vestiges of civilized life.
multitude	A large indefinite number. A multitude of medical conditions are due to being overweight.
pack	A quantity of fish fruit or other foods packed or canned in a particular season. I had doubts about Swansea s pack at the beginning of the season.
parish	The smallest unit of local government, constituted only in rural areas. A parish church.
parishioners	A member of a parish.
souls	Deep feeling or emotion. Soul was politically significant during the Civil Rights movement.
swarm	A large number of honeybees that leave a hive en masse with a newly fertilized queen in order to establish a new colony. A swarm of journalists.

Usage Examples of "Congregation" as a noun

• The sisters of the Congregation of Our Lady.
• Large congregations of birds may cause public harm.
• Drought conditions lead to the congregation of animals around watering points.
• A congregation of children pleaded for his autograph.
• The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
• He was a member of the Emmanuel Chapel congregation.
• This is a shorebird beach, with a congregation of plovers inhabiting it.
• A great congregation of birds flew over.
• The singing of psalms by the whole congregation.

Associations of "Congregation" (30 Words)

abbey	A church that was formerly an abbey.
abbot	A man who is the head of an abbey of monks.
baptism	A ceremony or occasion at which baptism takes place. Most churches baptize infants but some insist on adult baptism.
bishop	A chess piece typically with its top shaped like a mitre that can move in any direction along a diagonal on which it stands Each player starts the game with two bishops one moving on white squares and the other on black.
canon	A ravine formed by a river in an area with little rainfall. The biblical canon.
cathedral	Any large and important church. St Paul's Cathedral.
catholicism	The beliefs and practices of a Catholic Church.
chaplain	A member of the clergy attached to a private chapel, institution, ship, regiment, etc. A prison chaplain.
christendom	The collective body of Christians throughout the world and history (found predominantly in Europe and the Americas and Australia.
church	Perform a special church rite or service for. After church we went to a restaurant.
clergyman	A male priest, minister, or religious leader, especially a Christian one.
deity	Any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force. Also on show is a bronze falcon deity.
diocese	A district under the pastoral care of a bishop in the Christian Church.
evangelical	A member of the evangelical tradition in the Christian Church. She was evangelical about organic farming.
holy	A sacred place of pilgrimage. I do not lead a holy life.
martyrdom	A display of pretended or exaggerated suffering to obtain sympathy. You know martyrdom isn t my style.
ministry	Building where the business of a government ministry is transacted. He is training for the ministry.
minster	A large or important church, typically one of cathedral status in the north of England that was built as part of a monastery. York Minster.
missionary	Relating to or characteristic of a missionary or a religious mission. Our taxi driver shared a sense of missionary zeal with us.
mormon	A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
parish	(in Louisiana) a territorial division corresponding to a county in other states. A parish church.
pastor	Be pastor of a church or congregation. He pastored Peninsula Bible Church in Palo Alto.
pastoral	A literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds. Clergy doing pastoral work.
priest	Ordain to the priesthood. He was made deacon in 1990 and priested in 1994.
priory	Religious residence in a monastery governed by a prior or a convent governed by a prioress.
protestant	Of or relating to Protestants or Protestantism.
rectory	A rector’s house.
saint	Declare a dead person to be a saint. Innocent III stressed that only the Pope had the authority to declare a saint.
theologian	A person who engages or is an expert in theology.
vicar	(Church of England) a clergyman appointed to act as priest of a parish.