The church congregation was moved by the fine sermon.
Source: tatoeba (19093)
Congregation
//ˌkɒŋɡɹɪˈɡeɪʃən//
Synonyms for "congregation" (108 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (22)
Strong matches (32)
Related words (54)
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
7 entriesRelated terms
4 entriesat location
1 entriesdbpedia genre
1 entriesderived
6 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entrieshas context
2 entriesis a
5 entriesmade of
1 entriesrelated to
27 entriesShowing 16 of 27 words.
Translations
113 translations across 40 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- gemeente noun (religious gathering of people in a place of worship)
Arabic
1 entries- جَمَاعَة noun (religious gathering of people in a place of worship)
Armenian
1 entries- հավաքույթ noun (large gathering of people)
Bulgarian
4 entries- заседание noun (corporate body)
- конгрегация noun (Roman Congregation)
- сбор noun (large gathering of people)
- стру́пване noun (large gathering of people)
Catalan
3 entries- congregació noun (act of congregating)
- congregació noun (religious gathering of people in a place of worship)
- congregació noun (large gathering of people)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 人群 noun (large gathering of people)
- 會眾 /会众 noun (religious gathering of people in a place of worship)
Danish
3 entries- forsamling noun (act of congregating)
- menighed noun (act of congregating)
- menighed noun (religious gathering of people in a place of worship)
Dutch
4 entries- (kerk)gemeente noun (religious gathering of people in a place of worship)
- bijeenkomst noun (large gathering of people)
- congregatie noun (religious gathering of people in a place of worship)
- congregatie noun (large gathering of people)
Esperanto
2 entries- kongregacio noun (religious gathering of people in a place of worship)
- paroĥanaro noun (religious gathering of people in a place of worship)
Finnish
2 entries- seurakunta noun (religious gathering of people in a place of worship)
- väkijoukko noun (large gathering of people)
French
4 entries- assemblée noun (large gathering of people)
- assemblée des fidèles noun (religious gathering of people in a place of worship)
- congrégation noun (Roman Congregation)
- rassemblement noun (act of congregating)
German
4 entries- Ansammlung (unorganised) noun (large gathering of people)
- Gemeinde noun (corporate body)
- Gemeindetreffen noun (religious gathering of people in a place of worship)
- Gemeindeversammlung noun (religious gathering of people in a place of worship)
Gothic
3 entries- 𐌰𐌹𐌺𐌺𐌻𐌴𐍃𐌾𐍉 noun (religious gathering of people in a place of worship)
- 𐌲𐌰𐌵𐌿𐌼𐌸𐍃 noun (large gathering of people)
- 𐌲𐌰𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌽𐌸𐍃 noun (religious gathering of people in a place of worship)
Greek
1 entries- εκκλησίασμα noun (religious gathering of people in a place of worship)
Hebrew
2 entries- עדה noun (corporate body)
- קָהָל noun (large gathering of people)
Hindi
4 entries- जमाअत noun (religious gathering of people in a place of worship)
- जमाअत noun (large gathering of people)
- जमात noun (religious gathering of people in a place of worship)
- जमात noun (large gathering of people)
Hungarian
1 entries- gyülekezet noun (religious gathering of people in a place of worship)
Icelandic
2 entries- mannsöfnuður noun (large gathering of people)
- söfnuður noun (religious gathering of people in a place of worship)
Indonesian
2 entries- jemaah noun (religious gathering of people in a place of worship)
- jemaat noun (religious gathering of people in a place of worship)
Interlingua
2 entries- congregation noun (religious gathering of people in a place of worship)
- congregation noun (large gathering of people)
Italian
4 entries- assemblea noun (religious gathering of people in a place of worship)
- congregazione noun (Roman Congregation)
- congregazione noun (large gathering of people)
- raduno noun (large gathering of people)
Japanese
2 entries- 会衆 noun (religious gathering of people in a place of worship)
- 集団 noun (large gathering of people)
Latin
1 entries- congregatio noun (Roman Congregation)
Māori
4 entries- ikapahitanga noun (act of congregating)
- minenga noun (large gathering of people)
- whakaminenga noun (religious gathering of people in a place of worship)
- whakaminenga noun (large gathering of people)
Norman
1 entries- congrégâtion noun (religious gathering of people in a place of worship)
Old English
1 entries- samnung noun (large gathering of people)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Vesaumlunk noun (religious gathering of people in a place of worship)
Polish
4 entries- kongregacja noun (Roman Congregation)
- zebranie noun (large gathering of people)
- zgromadzenie noun (religious gathering of people in a place of worship)
- zgromadzenie noun (large gathering of people)
Portuguese
4 entries- assembleia noun (religious gathering of people in a place of worship)
- assembleia noun (large gathering of people)
- congregação noun (religious gathering of people in a place of worship)
- congregação noun (Roman Congregation)
Romanian
3 entries- adunare de fideli noun (religious gathering of people in a place of worship)
- congregație noun (religious gathering of people in a place of worship)
- organzație fondată religios noun (religious gathering of people in a place of worship)
Russian
4 entries- конгрега́ция noun (religious gathering of people in a place of worship)
- па́ства noun (religious gathering of people in a place of worship)
- скопле́ние noun (large gathering of people)
- собра́ние noun (large gathering of people)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- coitheanal noun (religious gathering of people in a place of worship)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- jato noun (group of eagles)
- kongregacija noun (religious gathering of people in a place of worship)
- kongregacija noun (Roman Congregation)
- kongregacija noun (large gathering of people)
Slovene
1 entries- kongregacija noun (religious gathering of people in a place of worship)
Spanish
3 entries- congregación noun (religious gathering of people in a place of worship)
- congregación noun (Roman Congregation)
- congregación noun (large gathering of people)
Swedish
1 entries- församling noun (religious gathering of people in a place of worship)
Turkish
1 entries- cemaat noun (religious gathering of people in a place of worship)
Unami
2 entries- maehëlan noun (large gathering of people)
- xinkwi maehëlan noun (large gathering of people)
Urdu
1 entries- جَماعَت noun (religious gathering of people in a place of worship)
Vietnamese
1 entries- bộ noun (Roman Congregation)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
The congregation was moved by the fine sermon.
Source: tatoeba (22353)
The priest blessed the congregation at the end of the mass.
Source: tatoeba (245505)
The priest blessed the congregation.
Source: tatoeba (245507)
Showing 4 of 14 available sentences.
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.