Both Uses
congregation
in
Our Town
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- ...the very soft singing of the hymns by the congregation.
Scene Intr. *congregation = people who worship together in the same building
- The Stage-Manager-Clergyman's speech: "I've married two hundred couples in my day," etc., is not delivered to the village congregation before him, but across their heads, an almost dreamy meditation, during which the tableau on the stage "freezes."†
Scene Intr.
Definitions:
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(1)
(congregation as in: the congregation voted) people who worship together in the same building
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, congregation can reference any group of people, animals, or things collected together.