Thesaurus results for CONGREGANT

congregant

noun

as in churchgoer

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Recent Examples of congregant At the end of the night, one of our young adult congregants approached me. —

Debra Newman Kamin, Chicago Tribune, 24 May 2026 While watching a video about the Protestant church in Cuba, Calderon was proud to see the congregants singing his grandfather’s hymn. —

Richard J. Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 May 2026 Now, after a $300,000 rebuild, congregants are getting ready to worship in the sanctuary again for the first time in nearly two years. —

Madeleine Wright, CBS News, 21 May 2026 Josh O’Connor joins the cast as a young priest who is transferred to the church after punching a former parishioner, and Glenn Close is a lovely addition in her role as Martha, a longtime congregant and Wicks’ chief confidant. —

James Mercadante, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for congregant

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Noun

Sutton points to, among other factors, a gap between the progressive stances adopted by mainline clergy and the more conservative views of the average mainline churchgoer.

— Michael Luo, New Yorker, 14 June 2026
Nicholas Shrum, a doctoral student researching Latter-day Saint identity in America, says that some historians point out that Washington was an Anglican and not a weekly churchgoer.

— Brittney Melton, NPR, 28 May 2026

Definition of churchgoer

Noun

Nonetheless, the event’s atmosphere reliably turns Lincoln Center into a hive of cinematic energy, and the impatient desire that draws audiences through the doors provides a sense of like-minded communicants at the movie altar.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2025
Simon—five years older and strikingly beautiful—works as a political consultant for high-minded left-wing politicians, is a communicant in the Roman Catholic Church, and has considered joining the priesthood.

— Caleb Crain, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2021