• n. 集会；集合；圣会

来自congregate, 聚集。

congregation

congregation: [14] Etymologically, a church’s congregation is comparable to a pastor’s flock. The word comes from Latin congregātiō, a noun derivative of congregāre ‘flock together’. This was a compound verb formed from the collective prefix com- and grex ‘flock, herd’ (source of English egregious and gregarious). Congregation was thus originally simply a ‘meeting, assembly’; its religious connotations arose from its frequent use in the 1611 translation of the Bible to render ‘solemn public assembly’. The verb congregate was independently borrowed in the 15th century.
=> aggregate, egregious, gregarious, segregate

congregation (n.)

mid-14c., "a gathering, assembly," from Old French congregacion (12c., Modern French congrégation), from Latin congregationem (nominative congregatio), noun of action from congregare (see congregate).

Used by Tyndale to translate Greek ekklesia in New Testament and by some Old Testament translators in place of synagoge. (Vulgate uses a variety of words in these cases, including congregatio but also ecclesia, vulgus, synagoga, populus.) Protestant reformers in 16c. used it in place of church; hence the word's main modern sense of "local society of believers" (1520s).

1. The congregation fell back from them slightly as they entered.

教堂会众在他们进来时稍稍往后退了退。

来自柯林斯例句

2. Most members of the congregation begin arriving a few minutes before services.

礼拜仪式开始前几分钟，大部分教堂会众陆续到来。

来自柯林斯例句

3. The congregation stood to sing the hymn.

会众站起来唱圣歌。

来自《权威词典》

4. She preached to the congregation about forgiveness.

她向会众宣讲宽恕的道理。

来自《权威词典》

5. The preacher addressed a congregation of more than one thousand people.

传教士向一千多人的会众讲演.

来自《现代英汉综合大词典》