Dictionary Entry
congregation
congregation is a 12-letter English word with 11 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of congregating, or bringing together, or of collecting into one aggregate or mass. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
12 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 21 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The act of congregating, or bringing together, or of collecting into one aggregate or mass.
- 2noun
A collection or mass of separate things.
- 3noun
An assembly of persons; a gathering; esp. an assembly of persons met for the worship of God, and for religious instruction; a body of people who habitually so meet.
- 4noun
The whole body of the Jewish people; -- called also Congregation of the Lord.
- 5noun
A body of cardinals or other ecclesiastics to whom as intrusted some department of the church business; as, the Congregation of the Propaganda, which has charge of the missions of the Roman Catholic Church.
- 6noun
A company of religious persons forming a subdivision of a monastic order.
- 7noun
The assemblage of Masters and Doctors at Oxford or Cambrige University, mainly for the granting of degrees.
- 8noun
the name assumed by the Protestant party under John Knox. The leaders called themselves (1557) Lords of the Congregation.
- 9noun
the act of congregating
Synonyms
- 10noun
an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together
"a congregation of children pleaded for his autograph"
"a great congregation of birds flew over"
- 11noun
a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church
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