congregant

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒŋ.ɡɹɪ.ɡənt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑŋ.ɡɹɪ.ɡənt/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔŋ.ɡɹɪ.ɡənt/

congregant (plural congregants)

1. A member of a congregation.
   • 2016, Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing, Penguin Books (2017), page 123:

     The wedding was at Timmyʼs fatherʼs church, and all the female congregants had cooked a meal fit to feed a king.

   • 2023 March 8, Mark Leibovich, “Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Last Act”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:

     Did he have any regrets about signing “I’ll be back”? Some social-media congregants had criticized the message as “tacky” and “flippant,” among other things.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kuŋ.ɡɾəˈɣan]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [koŋ.ɡɾəˈɣant]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [koŋ.ɡɾeˈɣant]

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• Rhymes: -an, -ant
• Hyphenation: con‧gre‧gant

From congregar +‎ -ant.

congregant m (plural congregants, feminine congreganta, feminine plural congregantes)

1. (religion) congregant (person who belongs to a congregation of lay faithful)
   • 2007, Jordi París, L'Època del Barroc i els Bonifàs: actes de les Jornades d'història de l'art a Catalunya, Valls, 1, 2 i 3 de juny de 2006‎^[2], Universitat de Barcelona, →ISBN, page 232:

     Qui sap, de fet, si aquestes qualitats foren definitives perquè els congregants dels Dolors de Mataró li confiessin un programa tan ambiciós també se m'acut que hi podria haver ajudat el fet de disposar d'un taller preparat per a grans encàrrecs.

     Who knows, in fact, if these qualities were definitive for the congregants of the Dolors de Mataró to entrust him with such an ambitious program? It also occurs to me that the fact of having a workshop prepared for large commissions could have helped.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

congregant

1. gerund of congregar

• “congregant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “congregant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “congregant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “congregant”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

congregant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of congregō