congress

1. 1.

   the legislature of the United States government

   SynonymsUnited States CongressU.S. CongressUS Congress

   Broaderlegislature

   Part oflegislative branch
2. 2.

   a meeting of elected or appointed representatives

   Broadermeeting

   NarrowerContinental Congress
3. 3.

   a national legislative assembly

   Broaderlegislature
4. 4.

   the social act of assembling for some common purpose

   “his meeting with the salesmen was the high point of his day”

   “the lovers met discreetly for the purposes of sexual congress”

   Synonymsmeetingcoming together

   Broaderassembly

   Narrowerrendezvoussessionsocializationvisit

Other forms of congress

plural

congresses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about congress

What does congress mean?

congress means "the legislature of the United States government". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in congress?

congress has 2 syllables: con-gress. The stress falls on "con". In IPA it is /ˈkɑŋɡɹəs/.

What is another word for congress?

Close synonyms include United States Congress, U.S. Congress, US Congress, meeting, coming together. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is congress a common word?

congress is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.