Congress

See also: congress

English

Proper noun

the Congress

  1. The two legislative bodies of the United States: the House of Representatives and the Senate.
  2. (India) Clipping of Indian National Congress.

Congress

  1. A census-designated place in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States.
  2. A village in Wayne County, Ohio, United States.
  3. A hamlet in the Rural Municipality of Stonehenge, No. 73, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Synonyms
  • (the two legislative bodies of the US): Capitol Hill
  • (Indian National Congress): INC

Translations

Noun

Congress (plural Congresses)

  1. (US) A two-year session of the Congress, commencing after a Federal election and ending before the next one.
    • 1946, Emil F. Faith, Richard Gibbs Browne, Our Civic Life and Progress, Mentzer, Bush & Company, page 248:
      Two regular sessions of our federal legislative body are called a Congress, and Congresses have been numbered consecutively since the first one met in 1789. The first two sessions were called the first Congress; […]
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