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

the two legislative bodies of the USA

• Arabic: اَلْكُونْغْرِس m (al-kunḡris)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 國會／国会 (zh) (guóhuì)

• Finnish: kongressi (fi)
• French: Congrès (fr) m
• Georgian: კონგრესი (ḳongresi)
• German: Kongress (de) m, Kongreß (de) m (obsolete spelling)
• Japanese: 議会 (ja) (ぎかい, gikai), コングレス (konguresu)
• Korean: 미 의회(美議會) (Mi uihoe)
• Malay: Kongres
• Navajo: Wááshindoondi dah naháaztánígíí
• Persian: کنگره آمریکا (kongere-ye âmrikâ), کنگره (fa) (kongere)
• Polish: Kongres (pl) m
• Russian: Конгре́сс m (Kongréss), конгре́сс (ru) m (kongréss)
• Spanish: Congreso m
• Tagalog: Kongreso (tl)

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; […]