synagogue

A place of worship for Jews or Samaritans.

Noun

  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. - 2013 May 7,...

    Synonyms: temple

  2. A congregation of Jews or Samaritans for the purpose of worship or religious study.
  3. Any assembly of folk.
    • But when they come hither, and ſee a Tympany of Spanioliz’d Biſhops ſwaggering in the fore-top of the State, and meddling to turn and dandle the Royal Ball with unskilful and Pedantick Palms, no marvel though they think...
    • 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 - 2024, Şener Aktürk, “Not So...

Origin

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.

Forms

synagogues synagog

Derived

archisynagogue cybersynagogue mega-synagogue synagogal synagogical synagogue-goer synagoguegoer synagogue-going synagoguelike Synagogue of Satan unsynagogued