Synonyms of congress

congress

noun

ˈkäŋ-grəs 

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

Examples of congress in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

And the top two were both recent examples: the 115th (2017-18) and 117th (2021-22) congresses. —Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 25 Mar. 2024

The weeklong meeting of the largely ceremonial congress, which opens Tuesday, is being closely watched for any indications of what steps the government will take to boost the struggling economy. —Ken Moritsugu and Elaine Kurtenbach, Quartz, 4 Mar. 2024

The groups are known as a convocation, an aerie, even a congress. —Journal Sentinel, 28 Feb. 2024

In 1931, at a congress in Jerusalem to highlight Muslim solidarity against Zionism, Sunni participants suggested that a famous Iraqi Shiite cleric lead the Friday prayer in the al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. —Toby Matthiesen, Foreign Affairs, 9 Feb. 2024