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congregant
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k??.???.??nt/
Noun
congregant (plural congregants)
- A member of a congregation.
Translations
Catalan
Verb
congregant
- present participle of congregar
Latin
Verb
congregant
- third-person plural present active indicative of congreg?
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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
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