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syn·od

 (sĭn′əd)
n.
1. A council or an assembly of church officials or churches; an ecclesiastical council.
2. A council or an assembly.

[Middle English, from Latin synodus, from Greek sunodos, meeting, assembly : sun-, syn- + hodos, way, course.]

syn′od·al (sĭn′ə-dl) adj.
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Translations

synodal

, synodic, synodical
adj
(Rel) → synodal
(Astron) monthsynodisch
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