congregant
noun
con·gre·gant
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Definition of congregant
: one who congregates
specifically
: a member of a congregation
Examples of congregant in a Sentence
A small number of congregants had assembled for Midnight Mass.
The church depends on the financial support of its congregants.
Recent Examples on the Web
Rogers said the enlarged archival work covers more than 60 new parishes, with many congregants hailing from Lithuania, Poland, and Portugal. — Alison Kuznitz, BostonGlobe.com, "A digital family tree grows in Boston," 4 Sep. 2019 The second Torah given to the synagogue was donated by congregant, Dorothy Rosenfeld. — Jamie Swinnerton, Houston Chronicle, "Chabad of The Woodlands celebrates milestone with new Torah," 29 Aug. 2019 The task was complicated by the religious holiday; the congregants, and a lot of the other passengers on the boy’s flight from Israel, weren’t answering their phones. — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, "The Message of Measles," 26 Aug. 2019 Two years later, at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, a gunman killed 26 congregants, including a pregnant woman, her unborn child and a toddler who was wrapped in her dying father’s arms. — Time, "How Likely Is the Risk of Being Shot in America? It Depends," 13 Aug. 2019 More Stories As the film begins, Mara has fallen in love with a local congregant named Augie (Thomas Mann) who has begun to distance himself from the church. — David Sims, The Atlantic, "Them That Follow Is a Lazy Portrait of Religious Fanaticism," 20 June 2019 The family held protests along with congregants from their church last July outside the York County courthouse in order to demand the release of their brother’s full autopsy results. — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, "A man went to resolve a DUI. He died at a prison days later.," 9 June 2019 The family held protests along with congregants from their church last July outside the York County courthouse in order to demand the release of their brother’s full autopsy results. — Kayla Epstein, Washington Post, "‘So much mystery’: After a man died in prison, his body was returned without vital organs.," 6 June 2019 That actually did not go over very well with some congregants of these pastors who say Trump has not been good to the black community despite a record low unemployment rate. — Fox News, "Laura Ingraham: Resisting for all the wrong reasons," 3 Aug. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'congregant.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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congregant
noun
English Language Learners Definition of congregant
chiefly US
: a person who is part of a congregation : a person who is attending religious services or who regularly attends religious services
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