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