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A group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church
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congregation
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE large ▪ Congregations on Sunday were good, the larger congregation being at the evening service. ▪ Its 800, 000 membership makes it the largest congregation in the world. ▪ Each winter flocks return to Slim bridge, ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A congregation is a formal meeting of senior members of a university , especially in the United Kingdom . Examples include Regent House at the University of Cambridge and the House of Congregation and the Ancient House of Congregation at the University ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Congregation \Con`gre*ga"tion\, n. [L. congregatio: cf. F. congr['e]gation.] The act of congregating, or bringing together, or of collecting into one aggregate or mass. The means of reduction in the fire is but by the congregation of homogeneal parts. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., "a gathering, assembly," from Old French congregacion (12c., Modern French congrégation ), from Latin congregationem (nominative congregatio ), noun of action from congregare (see congregate ).\n \nUsed by Tyndale to translate Greek ekklesia in ...
Usage examples of congregation.
Jord took the two chairs that stood to one side, and Abel Veritt faced the congregation.
Rostow, Mac, Bundy and Hot Stick were standing by with their weapons pointed at the congregation of Aguaruna as casually as it could be done without being rude, trying to provide comfort for Felix, who crouched next to the Stele, perspiring heavily over a soldering iron, a converter and a picnic cooler full of two dozen size-D batteries.
Miss Airedale played the organ with emphatic fervour, and the congregation, after a little hesitation, enjoyed the lusty sincerity of a hymn well trolled.
It reported that Matthew Bowditch, out of the goodness of his white Yankee liberal heart, had volunteered to design a new church for a congregation of Korean Methodists whose church had been ruined in a racist arson attack.
The two reported the result to Brummel, who told the congregation, which moaned quietly.
When they came on again, moments later, the voice of Capra had gone, leaving an empty chair and a congregation ready to follow him wherever he chose to lead them.
They were too busy searching for the Mutie congregation on Columbiad to scan space too.
Vacaville reinforced my belief that the population of Diamond Bar was being transformed by person or persons unknown into a brain-dead congregation of delusionaries, and fearful of joining them, I intensified my focus on escape, exploring the sub-basements, the walls, the turrets, searching for potential threats.
John Alasco, a Polish nobleman, being expelled his country by the rigors of the Catholics, settled during some time at Embden in East Friezland, where he became preacher to a congregation of the reformed.
Objects of varying unattractiveness came and went, eulogised by the officiating priest, but coldly received by the congregation.
Kingdomites did not particularly like freethinking, socially active congregations.
When I was ten and he seventeen, Polar Bears and I had spitballed the congregation from the choir loft at Gethsemane church.
Within a month after the surrender of Hamadan, the congregation of the people assembled in the square of the great mosque, now converted into a synagogue.
With Clingman and Gibbs and Holdback peaks near at hand and apparently of equal height, Mitchell seemed only a part and not separate from the mighty congregation of giants.
Nevertheless, our people persist in thinking of the Kaddish as an obligation they owe to the dead, and because in our tradition custom takes on the force of law, I shall recite the Kaddish with the mourners, for one who was not a member of this congregation, nor even of our faith, someone about whom we know little, but whose life happened through tragic accident to touch this congregation .