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congress

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of congress

1 the highest lawmaking body of a political unit
  • the national emergency required a special session of congress
Synonyms of congress

parliament
Words Related to congress

assembly, chamber, council, diet, house, legislative, legislature

general assembly, legislative assembly
2 a coming together of a number of persons for a specified purpose
  • following World War I a great congress of world leaders took place in Paris to plan the postwar world
Synonyms of congress

assembly, convention, convocation, council, gathering, get-together, huddle, meeting, powwow
Words Related to congress

clinic, workshop

cabinet, caucus, conclave, synod

demonstration, rally

confab, conversation, dialogue (also dialog), discourse, discussion, palaver, talk

negotiation, parley, summit

conference, forum, round-robin, roundtable, seminar, symposium

audience, interview, session
3 a group of persons formally joined together for some common interest
  • the Canada Trades and Labor Congress
Synonyms of congress

association, board, brotherhood, chamber, club, college, consortium, council, fellowship, fraternity, guild (also gild), institute, institution, league, order, organization, society, sodality
Words Related to congress

collective, commune, community, cooperative

alliance, bloc, camp, coalition, partnership

body, cadre, group

circle, clan, clique, coterie, junta, junto, klatch (also klatsch), lot, set

crew, outfit, party, squad, team

branch, chapter, local

faithful, fold, membership

sisterhood, sorority

cabal, camarilla, camorra, confederacy, conspiracy

band, gang, ring

cartel, combine, syndicate
4 sexual union involving penetration of the vagina by the penis
  • laws that once prohibited congress between people of different races
Synonyms of congress

coition, coitus, commerce, copulating, copulation, coupling, intercourse, lovemaking, mating, relations, sex, sex act, sexual intercourse, sexual relations
Words Related to congress

fornication

safe sex

carnality, sexuality

breeding, insemination

dalliance, hanky-panky, whoopee
Phrases Synonymous with congress

getting it on, making love

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