congregant
Member of flock
A congregant is a member of a congregation, particularly someone who regularly attends a church, synagogue, mosque, or other place of worship: The congregants filed into the pews.
The term emphasizes participation in communal worship rather than formal membership status.
Member of a congregation
- churchgoerOne attending religious services
- memberOne who belongs
- attendeePerson present at event
- laypersonNon-specialist or unordained person
communicant · participant · regular · flock · laity · enrolled · registered · card-carrying
One who venerates
- prayerAddress to deity
- devoteeZealous admirer or follower
- believerOne who accepts something
- faithfulConsistently loyal and true
supplicant · reverent · prayerful · devotional · spiritual · pious · kneeling · liturgy
Constructing from components
- meetingGathering for discussion
- convocationFormal ceremonial gathering
- gatheringCollection of people meeting
- crowdLarge public gathering
audience · multitude · throng · conclave · fellowship · Sunday service · weekly · seated
Mutual goodwill among companions
- brotherhoodKinship among men
- sisterhoodBond among women
- solidarityUnity among allies
- kinshipState of being related
bonding · camaraderie · unity · togetherness · support · potluck · parish · flock
parishioner
Member of a congregation
- churchgoerOne attending religious services
- memberOne who belongs
- attendeePerson present at event
layperson · communicant · participant · regular · flock · laity · enrolled · registered · card-carrying · affiliated
worshipper
One who venerates
faithful · supplicant · reverent · prayerful · devotional · spiritual · pious · kneeling · liturgy · service
assembly
Constructing from components
- meetingGathering for discussion
- convocationFormal ceremonial gathering
- gatheringCollection of people meeting
crowd · audience · multitude · throng · conclave · fellowship · Sunday service · weekly · seated · standing
fellowship
Mutual goodwill among companions
- brotherhoodKinship among men
- sisterhoodBond among women
- solidarityUnity among allies
kinship · bonding · camaraderie · unity · togetherness · support · potluck · parish · flock · brethren
- believersbeliever, believers, adherent, devotee, theist
- ChristiansCatholics, Catholic, Protestants, Protestant, Baptist
- church peoplepriest, parson, vicar, curate, rector
- community membersresident, citizen, neighbor, local, voter
- church membersparishioner, member, active member, founding member, charter member
- churchgoerschurchgoer, churchgoers, parishioner, parishioners, worshipper
congregantclergy
Ordained religious officials collectively
clergyman · clergywoman · priest · minister · pastor
congregantoutsider
One excluded from group
atheist · unchurched · apostate · nonbeliever · non-believer
- preached to the congregationDelivered religious message publicly
- religious congregationsOrganized bodies of worshippers
- church congregation
- congregational prayerGroup supplication in unison
- congregational singingCollective vocal worship
congregation, congregate, congregated, congregating, congregates, congregations, congregational, congregants