synagogue

CEFRB1

/ˈsɪnəɡɒɡ/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A building where Jewish people worship.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

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

Examples

  • You couldn't just don a skullcap and gatecrash a synagogue.

  • I'm going back to the synagogue.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
4
Parts of speech
1
Citations
3
Synonyms
1

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Any assembly of folk.

  2. A place of worship for Jews or Samaritans.

More examples

In context

  • The protesters burnt down the synagogue.

  • 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.

  • 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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Origin

noun

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.