Usually means: Gathering of people for worship.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word congregation:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. congregation: Merriam-Webster
  2. Congregation, congregation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. congregation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. congregation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. congregation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Congregation, congregation: Wordnik
  7. congregation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. congregation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. congregation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. congregation: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Congregation, congregation: Dictionary.com
  12. congregation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Congregation (Catholic), Congregation (Roman Curia), Congregation (The Afghan Whigs album), Congregation (catholic), Congregation (disambiguation), Congregation (film), Congregation (group of houses), Congregation (song), Congregation (university), Congregation, The Congregation (Johnny Griffin album), The Congregation (Leprous album), The Congregation (album), The Congregation (band), The Congregation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Congregation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. congregation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. congregation: Rhymezone
  17. Congregation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. congregation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. congregation: FreeDictionary.org
  20. congregation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. congregation: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. congregation: Wiktionary
  23. congregation: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. congregation: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. congregation: Encyclopedia

Religion (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Congregation: Easton Bible
  2. Religious Tolerance (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)
  4. Congregation: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  5. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. congregation: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See congregations as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act of congregating or collecting together.
noun:  A gathering of faithful in a temple, church, synagogue, mosque or other place of worship. It can also refer to the people who are present at a devotional service in the building, particularly in contrast to the pastor, minister, imam, rabbi etc. and/or choir, who may be seated apart from the general congregation or lead the service (notably in responsory form).
noun:  A Roman Congregation, a main department of the Vatican administration of the Catholic Church.
noun:  A corporate body whose members gather for worship, or the members of such a body.
noun:  Any large gathering of people.
noun:  A flock of various birds, such as plovers or eagles.
noun:  (UK, Oxford University) The main body of university staff, comprising academics, administrative staff, heads of colleges, etc.

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