1. (n.) A congregation or assembly of Jews met for the purpose of worship, or the performance of religious rites.

2. (n.) The building or place appropriated to the religious worship of the Jews.

3. (n.) The council of, probably, 120 members among the Jews, first appointed after the return from the Babylonian captivity; -- called also the Great Synagogue, and sometimes, though erroneously, the Sanhedrin.

4. (n.) A congregation in the early Christian church.

5. (n.) Any assembly of men.

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