different between assortment vs congregation
assortment
English
Etymology
assort +? -ment
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??s??tm?nt/
Noun
assortment (plural assortments)
- A collection of varying but related items.
- This box has an assortment of chocolates. There's a picture on the cover so you know which is which.
Synonyms
- diversity, Whitman's sampler
- See also Thesaurus:hodgepodge
Translations
assortment From the web:
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congregation
English
Etymology
From Old French congregacion, from Latin congreg?ti?, itself from congreg? (“to herd into a flock”). Adopted c. 1340, by the English Bible translator William Tyndale, to render the Ancient Greek ???????? (ekkl?sía, “those called together, (popular) meeting”) (hence Latin eccl?sia) in his New Testament, and preferred by 16th century Reformers instead of church.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?k???????e???n/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?k???????e???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
- Hyphenation: con?gre?ga?tion
Noun
congregation (countable and uncountable, plural congregations)
- The act of congregating or collecting together.
- A gathering of faithful in a temple, church, synagogue, mosque or other place of worship. It can also refer to the people who are present at a devotional service in the building, particularly in contrast to the pastor, minister, imam, rabbi etc. and/or choir, who may be seated apart from the general congregation or lead the service (notably in responsory form).
- A Roman Congregation, a main department of the Vatican administration of the Catholic Church.
- A corporate body whose members gather for worship, or the members of such a body.
- Any large gathering of people.
- A group of eagles.
- (Britain, Oxford University) The main body of university staff, comprising academics, administrative staff, heads of colleges, etc.
Derived terms
- congregational
- congregationalism
Related terms
- congregant
- congregate
- congregator
- gregarious
Translations
congregation From the web:
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- what congregation was selena in
- what congregation means in tagalog
- what congregation does
- what congregation meaning in arabic
- what's congregation in english
- french conjugation
- what does segregation mean
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