Congress

A census-designated place in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States.

Proper noun government, politics

  1. The two legislative bodies of the United States: the House of Representatives and the Senate.
    • The bill was stewarded through Congress to the President.
  2. The legislature of the Philippines.

    1. (more specifically) The House of Representatives of the Philippines.

  3. Clipping of Indian National Congress

Origin

From congress.

Forms

Congress the Congress

Proper noun Entry 2

  1. A census-designated place in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States.
  2. A village in Wayne County, Ohio, United States.
  3. A hamlet in the Rural Municipality of Stonehenge, No. 73, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Synonyms

Capitol Hill INC

Derived

act of Congress

Noun

  1. A two-year session of the Congress, commencing after a Federal election and ending before the next one.
    • Two regular sessions of our federal legislative body are called a Congress, and Congresses have been numbered consecutively since the first one met in 1789. The first two sessions were called the first Congress; […] -...

Forms

Congresses