Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun congress

4 senses of congress

Sense 1
Congress, United States Congress, U.S. Congress, US Congress -- (the legislature of the United States government)
       => legislature, legislative assembly, legislative body, general assembly, law-makers -- (persons who make or amend or repeal laws)

Sense 2
congress -- (a meeting of elected or appointed representatives)
       => meeting, group meeting -- (a formally arranged gathering; "next year the meeting will be in Chicago"; "the meeting elected a chairperson")

Sense 3
congress -- (a national legislative assembly)
       => legislature, legislative assembly, legislative body, general assembly, law-makers -- (persons who make or amend or repeal laws)

Sense 4
sexual intercourse, intercourse, sex act, copulation, coitus, coition, sexual congress, congress, sexual relation, relation, carnal knowledge -- (the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman; the man's penis is inserted into the woman's vagina and excited until orgasm and ejaculation occur)
       => sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity -- (activities associated with sexual intercourse; "they had sex in the back seat")