Congregation
Formal worship assembly
A congregation is a group of people assembled for religious worship, or the regular members of a church or synagogue: The congregation rose for the hymn.
The word extends to any gathering of people or animals: a congregation of starlings.
To congregate is to gather together.
Place of Christian worship
- parishLocal church community
- flockAnimals gathered together
- faithfulConsistently loyal and true
- worshippersThose who revere religiously
parishioners · assembly · service · pews · sermon · minister · pastor · Mass
Animals gathered together
- herdGrazing animals together
- colonyDependent territorial settlement
- swarmMass of moving insects
- schoolPlace of instruction
murmuration · rookery · pod · pack · gaggle · pride · troop · cluster
Constructing from components
- crowdLarge public gathering
- groupAssembled collection of things
- multitudeVery large number
- throngDense pressing crowd
attendees · audience · meeting · convocation · rally · mass · collective · turnout
Forming concentrated groups
- gatheringCollection of people meeting
- massingGathering in quantity
- concentrationSustained single-minded attention
- convergenceProcess of approaching sameness
accumulation · grouping · assembly point · pooling · collection · amassing · centralization · hub
church
Place of Christian worship
worshippers · parishioners · assembly · service · pews · sermon · minister · pastor · Mass · prayer
flock
Animals gathered together
school · murmuration · rookery · pod · pack · gaggle · pride · troop · cluster · crocodiles
assembly
Constructing from components
throng · attendees · audience · meeting · convocation · rally · mass · collective · turnout · body
clustering
Forming concentrated groups
- gatheringCollection of people meeting
- massingGathering in quantity
- concentrationSustained single-minded attention
convergence · accumulation · grouping · assembly point · pooling · collection · amassing · centralization · hub · focal point
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Congregationdispersal
Spreading in many directions
scattering · diaspora · dispersion · dissolution · exodus
- preached to the congregationDelivered religious message publicly
- church congregation
- religious congregationWorshippers assembled as community
- congregational prayerGroup supplication in unison
- congregational singingCollective vocal worship