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synagogue

noun · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈsɪnəɡɒɡ/
  • General-American: /ˈsɪnəˌɡɑɡ/
  • General-American: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ɪnəɡɒɡ
  • CMU ARPABET: S IH1 N AH0 G AO2 G Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A place of worship for Jews.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Judaism, countable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: temple

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Judaism, countable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

Any assembly of folk.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, rare

Topics: lifestyle, religion

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

(Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: temple, tabernacle

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: place of worship, house of prayer, house of God, house of worship

Narrower terms: Temple of Jerusalem, Temple of Solomon

History

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.

Across languages

Translations

149 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: sinagoge — Jewish place of worship
  • Albanian: sinagogë — Jewish place of worship
  • Arabic: كَنِيس (kanīs) — Jewish place of worship
  • Arabic: بِيعَة (bīʕa) — Jewish place of worship
  • Arabic: صَلَاة (ṣalāh) — Jewish place of worship
  • Judeo-Arabic: כניס (kanīs) — Jewish place of worship
  • Judeo-Arabic: כניסיא (kanīsiyya) — Jewish place of worship
  • Judeo-Arabic: צלא (ṣla) — Jewish place of worship
  • Judeo-Arabic: שנוגׄא (šnūġa) — Jewish place of worship
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܟܢܘܫܬܐ (knuštā) — Jewish place of worship
  • Lishana Deni: כנשתא (knəšta) — Jewish place of worship
  • Armenian: սինագոգ (sinagog) — Jewish place of worship
  • Armenian: ժողովուրդ (žoġovurd) — Jewish place of worship
  • Old Armenian: ժողովուրդ (žołovurd) — Jewish place of worship
  • Asturian: sinagoga — Jewish place of worship
  • Azerbaijani: sinaqoq — Jewish place of worship
  • Azerbaijani: xavra — Jewish place of worship
  • Basque: sinagoga — Jewish place of worship
  • Belarusian: сінаго́га (sinahóha) — Jewish place of worship
  • Bulgarian: синаго́га (sinagóga) — Jewish place of worship
  • Catalan: sinagoga — Jewish place of worship
  • Chinese Cantonese: 猶太廟 /犹太庙 (jau4 taai3 miu6) — Jewish place of worship
  • Chinese Mandarin: 猶太教堂 /犹太教堂 (Yóutài jiàotáng) — Jewish place of worship
  • Chinese Mandarin: 猶太會堂 /犹太会堂 (Yóutài huìtáng) — Jewish place of worship
  • Chinese Mandarin: 猶太廟 /犹太庙 (Yóutài miào) — Jewish place of worship
  • Czech: synagoga — Jewish place of worship
  • Danish: synagoge — Jewish place of worship
  • Dutch: synagoge — Jewish place of worship
  • Esperanto: sinagogo — Jewish place of worship
  • Estonian: sünagoog — Jewish place of worship
  • Faroese: sýnagoga — Jewish place of worship
  • Finnish: synagoga — Jewish place of worship
  • French: synagogue — Jewish place of worship
  • West-Frisian: synagoge — Jewish place of worship
  • Galician: sinagoga — Jewish place of worship
  • Georgian: სინაგოგა (sinagoga) — Jewish place of worship
  • German: Synagoge — Jewish place of worship
  • German: Schule — Jewish place of worship
  • Gothic: 𐍃𐍅𐌽𐌰𐌲𐍉𐌲𐌴 (swnagōgē) — Jewish place of worship
  • Greek: συναγωγή (synagogí) — Jewish place of worship
  • Greek: χάβρα (chávra) — Jewish place of worship
  • Ancient Greek: συναγωγή (sunagōgḗ) — Jewish place of worship
  • Hawaiian Creole: Jewish church — Jewish place of worship
  • Hebrew: בֵּית־כְּנֶסֶת (beit-k'néset) — Jewish place of worship
  • Hindi: आराधनालय (ārādhnālay) — Jewish place of worship
  • Hindi: कनीसा (kanīsā) — Jewish place of worship
  • Hungarian: zsinagóga — Jewish place of worship
  • Icelandic: samkunduhús — Jewish place of worship
  • Icelandic: sýnagóga — Jewish place of worship
  • Ido: sinagogo — Jewish place of worship
  • Indonesian: sinagoge — Jewish place of worship
  • Irish: sionagóg — Jewish place of worship
  • Italian: sinagoga — Jewish place of worship
  • Japanese: シナゴーグ (shinagōgu) — Jewish place of worship
  • Judeo-Tat: нумаз (numaz) — Jewish place of worship
  • Judeo-Tat: нимаз (nimaz) — Jewish place of worship
  • Kazakh: синагога (sinagoga) — Jewish place of worship
  • Khmer: វិហារជ្វីហ្វ (vihiə cviif) — Jewish place of worship
  • Korean: 시나고그 (sinagogeu) — Jewish place of worship
  • Central Kurdish: کەنیشت (kenîşt) — Jewish place of worship
  • Northern Kurdish: kinîşte — Jewish place of worship
  • Northern Kurdish: sînagog — Jewish place of worship
  • Northern Kurdish: hewra — Jewish place of worship
  • Kyrgyz: синагога (sinagoga) — Jewish place of worship
  • Ladino: קהל (kal) — Jewish place of worship
  • Ladino: אסנוגה (esnoga) — Jewish place of worship
  • Ladino: kal — Jewish place of worship
  • Ladino: esnoga — Jewish place of worship
  • Ladino: sinagoga — Jewish place of worship
  • Latin: proseucha — Jewish place of worship
  • Latvian: sinagoga — Jewish place of worship
  • Ligurian: scinagöga — Jewish place of worship
  • Lithuanian: sinagoga — Jewish place of worship
  • Lombard: sinagoga — Jewish place of worship
  • Macedonian: синаго́га (sinagóga) — Jewish place of worship
  • Macedonian: а́вра (ávra) — Jewish place of worship
  • Malay: sinagog — Jewish place of worship
  • Malay: sinagoge — Jewish place of worship
  • Malay: kanisah — Jewish place of worship
  • Malay: saumaah — Jewish place of worship
  • Malay: biah — Jewish place of worship
  • Maltese: sinagoga — Jewish place of worship
  • Marathi: प्रार्थना मंदिर (prārthanā mandir) — Jewish place of worship
  • Marathi: प्रार्थनालय (prārthanālay) — Jewish place of worship
  • Mongolian: синагог (sinagog) — Jewish place of worship
  • Mongolian: жүүдийн сүм (žüüdiin süm) — Jewish place of worship
  • Norman: synnagogue — Jewish place of worship
  • Norwegian Bokmål: synagoge — Jewish place of worship
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: synagoge — Jewish place of worship
  • Church Slavic: сѵнагога (sünagoga) — Jewish place of worship
  • Dari: کَلِیسَا (kalīsā) — Jewish place of worship
  • Dari: کُنِشْت (kuništ) — Jewish place of worship
  • Dari: کَنِیسَه (kanīsa) — Jewish place of worship
  • Iranian Persian: کَنیسِه (kanise) — Jewish place of worship
  • Piedmontese: sinagòga — Jewish place of worship
  • Plautdietsch: Judenschool — Jewish place of worship
  • Polish: synagoga — Jewish place of worship
  • Polish: bożnica — Jewish place of worship
  • Portuguese: sinagoga — Jewish place of worship
  • Portuguese: esnoga — Jewish place of worship
  • Romanian: sinagogă — Jewish place of worship
  • Russian: синаго́га (sinagóga) — Jewish place of worship
  • Scottish Gaelic: sionagog — Jewish place of worship
  • Serbo-Croatian: синаго́га — Jewish place of worship
  • Serbo-Croatian: sinagóga — Jewish place of worship
  • Slovak: synagóga — Jewish place of worship
  • Slovene: sinagoga — Jewish place of worship
  • Spanish: sinagoga — Jewish place of worship
  • Swahili: sinagogi — Jewish place of worship
  • Swedish: synagoga — Jewish place of worship
  • Tagalog: sinagoga — Jewish place of worship
  • Tajik: каниса (kanisa) — Jewish place of worship
  • Tajik: куништ (kuništ) — Jewish place of worship
  • Tajik: синагога (sinagoga) — Jewish place of worship
  • Tashelhit: ccnuɣt — Jewish place of worship
  • Tashelhit: tacnuɣt — Jewish place of worship
  • Tatar: синагога (sinağoğa) — Jewish place of worship
  • Thai: สุเหร่ายิว (sù-rào yiu) — Jewish place of worship
  • Turkish: sinagog — Jewish place of worship
  • Turkish: havra — Jewish place of worship
  • Turkmen: sinagoga — Jewish place of worship
  • Ukrainian: синаго́га (synahóha) — Jewish place of worship
  • Urdu: کَنِیسَہ (kanīsa) — Jewish place of worship
  • Urdu: کُنِشْت (kuniśt) — Jewish place of worship
  • Uzbek: sinagoga — Jewish place of worship
  • Vietnamese: giáo đường Do thái — Jewish place of worship
  • Volapük: sünagog — Jewish place of worship
  • Volapük: sinagöp — Jewish place of worship
  • Welsh: synagog — Jewish place of worship
  • Yiddish: שול (shul) — Jewish place of worship
  • Yiddish: סינאַגאָגע (sinagoge) — Jewish place of worship
  • Bulgarian: синагога (sinagoga) — Jewish congregation
  • Catalan: sinagoga — Jewish congregation
  • Dutch: synagoge — Jewish congregation
  • Dutch: kehilla — Jewish congregation
  • Estonian: juudi kogudus — Jewish congregation
  • Estonian: juudi selts — Jewish congregation
  • Estonian: juudi kogukond — Jewish congregation
  • Finnish: juutalainen seurakunta — Jewish congregation
  • German: Synagoge — Jewish congregation
  • Greek: συναγωγή (synagogí) — Jewish congregation
  • Hebrew: קהילה — Jewish congregation
  • Hebrew: קְהִלָּה (k'hilá) — Jewish congregation
  • Hungarian: zsidó egyházközség — Jewish congregation
  • Ladino: keila — Jewish congregation
  • Macedonian: синаго́га (sinagóga) — Jewish congregation
  • Romanian: sinagogă — Jewish congregation
  • Russian: синаго́га (sinagóga) — Jewish congregation
  • Spanish: sinagoga — Jewish congregation
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