noun any assembly of men.
2. synagogue ·noun a congregation in the early christian church.
3. synagogue ·noun the building or place appropriated to the religious worship of the jews.
4. synagogue ·noun a congregation or assembly of jews met for the purpose of worship, or the performance of religious rites.
5. synagogue ·noun the council of, probably, 120 members among the jews, first appointed after the return from the babylonish captivity;
called also the great synagogue, and sometimes, though erroneously, the sanhedrin.