congress
31congress — noun /ˈkɒŋɡɹɛs/ a) A coming together of two or more people; a meeting. After some little repast, he went to see Democritus [...]. The multitude stood gazing round about to see the congress. b) A formal gathering or assembly; a conference held to… …
32Congress — ♦♦ N PROPER COLL Congress is the elected group of politicians that is responsible for making the law in the United States. It consists of two parts: the House of Representatives and the Senate. We want to cooperate with both the administration… …
33congress — noun 1) a congress of mathematicians Syn: conference, convention, seminar, colloquium, symposium, forum, meeting, assembly, gathering, rally, summit 2) elections for the new Congress Syn …
34congress — con•gress n. [[t]ˈkɒŋ grɪs[/t]] v. [[t]kənˈgrɛs, kəŋ [/t]] n. 1) gov (cap.) a) gov the national legislative body of the U.S., consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives b) this body as it exists for a period of two years with the… …
35Congress (J) — The Congress (J) was a short lived Indian political party founded by Jagjivan Ram in 1980, the former Defence Minister of India and participant in the Janata alliance. The J stood for Jagjivan. The party maintained a small presence in the Indian… …
36congress — Synonyms and related words: British Cabinet, ESP, Sanhedrin, US Cabinet, act of love, adultery, advisory body, answer, aphrodisia, approach, ass, assemble, assemblee, assembly, assignation, association, asymptote, at home, audience, ball, balling …
37CONGRESS — 1) is a diplomatic conference at which the representatives of sovereign States discuss matters of importance to their several countries, the most celebrated of which are those of Münster and Osnabrück, which issued in the treaty of Westphalia… …
38Congress — Original name in latin Congress Name in other language State code US Continent/City America/Phoenix longitude 34.16253 latitude 112.85074 altitude 931 Population 1975 Date 2011 05 14 …
39congress — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. assembly, legislature, parliament; meeting, convention; intercourse. See assemblage, council, conversation. II (Roget s IV) n. [ Often capital C ] Syn. parliament, deliberative assembly, legislative… …
40congress — [16] A congress is literally a ‘coming together’ – hence, a ‘meeting’. The word comes from Latin congressus, which was based on the past participial stem of congredī ‘come together’. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix com ‘together’… …
