n.
- A building or place of meeting for worship and religious instruction in the Jewish faith.
- A congregation of Jews for the purpose of worship or religious study.
- The Jewish religion as organized or typified in local congregations.
[Middle English, from Old French sinagoge, from Late Latin synagōga, from Greek sunagōgē, assembly, synagogue, from sunagein, to bring together : sun-, syn- + agein, to lead.]
synagogical syn'a·gog'i·cal (-gŏj'ĭ-kəl) or syn'a·gog'al (-gŏg'əl, -gôg'-) adj.
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