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synagogue

noun
/ˈsɪnəɡɒɡ/UK/ˈsɪnəˌɡɑɡ/US

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English synagoge, from Old French synagoge, from Latin synagōga, from Ancient Greek σῠνᾰγωγή (sŭnăgōgḗ, “assembly, gathering”), from συνάγω (sunágō, “to gather together”), from σῠ́ν (sŭ́n, “with, together”) & ᾰ̓́γω (ắgō, “to lead”). By surface analysis, syn- + -agogue.

  1. derived from σῠνᾰγωγή
  2. derived from synagōga
  3. derived from synagoge
  4. inherited from synagoge

Definitions

  1. A place of worship for Jews or Samaritans.

    • On Tuesday, Netanyahu and his wife toured Shanghai’s Ohel Moshe synagogue in the Hongkou district that was home to many of the 18,000 Jews granted refuge in Shanghai from the horrors of Nazi persecution.

  2. A congregation of Jews or Samaritans for the purpose of worship or religious study.

  3. Any assembly of folk.

    • It is in this period that some Christian authors even refer to the “Synagogue of … Muhammad,” demonstrating the extent to which they perceive non-Christian groups as one and the same.¹¹¹

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA