congregant
nounUK /ˈkɒŋ.ɡɹɪ.ɡənt/ · US /ˈkɑŋ.ɡɹɪ.ɡənt/
1
A member of a congregation.
- The wedding was at Timmyʼs fatherʼs church, and all the female congregants had cooked a meal fit to feed a king.2016, Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing, Penguin Books (2017), page 123:
- Did he have any regrets about signing “I’ll be back”? Some social-media congregants had criticized the message as “tacky” and “flippant,” among other things.2023 March 8, Mark Leibovich, “Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Last Act”, in The Atlantic: