Synonyms of congress

congress

noun

1

as in parliament

the highest lawmaking body of a political unit

the national emergency required a special session of congress

Synonyms & Similar Words

• parliament
• legislature
• legislative
• council
• assembly
• chamber
• diet
• house
• legislative assembly
• general assembly

2

as in meeting

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 & Similar Words

• meeting
• convention
• gathering
• conclave
• assembly
• council
• symposium
• conference
• synod
• convocation
• caucus
• workshop
• session
• seminar
• cabinet
• get-together
• rally
• demonstration
• discussion
• summit
• clinic
• huddle
• discourse
• conversation
• dialogue
• negotiation
• forum
• dialog
• audience
• interview
• talk
• confab
• roundtable
• parley
• palaver
• round-robin

3

as in organization

a group of persons formally joined together for some common interest

the Canada Trades and Labor Congress

Synonyms & Similar Words

• organization
• institute
• association
• institution
• society
• chamber
• council
• fraternity
• brotherhood
• board
• consortium
• group
• college
• league
• commune
• club
• collective
• guild
• community
• team
• chapter
• cadre
• fellowship
• coalition
• gild
• order
• alliance
• party
• sodality
• partnership
• bloc
• cooperative
• junta
• body
• camp
• branch
• circle
• crew
• clique
• clan
• squad
• confederacy
• coterie
• membership
• cartel
• band
• sorority
• gang
• cabal
• sisterhood
• fold
• set
• conspiracy
• faithful
• syndicate
• junto
• klatch
• local
• outfit
• klatsch
• lot
• ring
• combine
• camarilla
• camorra

4

as in sex

sexual union involving penetration of the vagina by the penis

laws that once prohibited congress between people of different races

Synonyms & Similar Words

• sex
• relations
• intercourse
• mating
• making love
• copulation
• commerce
• sex act
• sexuality
• coitus
• sexual intercourse
• sexual relations
• breeding
• coition
• getting it on
• lovemaking
• coupling
• copulating
• safe sex
• fornication
• insemination
• carnality
• dalliance
• hanky-panky
• whoopee