Noun: congress
| Singular | congress |
| Plural | congresses |
Sample Sentences
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Republicans have their own high stakes in November. Losing control of Congress, they say, could mean a highly politicized impeachment of their president. [2018 January 27, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Nicholas Fandos, “As Gridlock Deepens in Congress, Only Gloom Is Bipartisan”, in The New York Times:]
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Near-synonyms: federation, confederation
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the National Congress of American Indians
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Welsh ponies, I learn from a man who has had much experience with these animals, habitually produce erections and emissions in their stalls; they do not bring their hind quarters up during this process, and they close their eyes, which does not take place when they have congress with mares. [1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 (of 6):]
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Not three weeks before this he was run out of Fort Smith Arkansas for having congress with a goat. Yes lady, that is what I said. Goat. [1985, Cormac McCarthy, chapter 1, in Blood Meridian […] , →OCLC:]
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After some little repast, he went to see Democritus […]. The multitude stood gazing round about to see the congress. [, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.48]
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[…] the council hall stank like a congress of baboons. [1966, Philip José Farmer, “Riverworld”, in Down in the Black Gang and Others, Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, published 1971, page 79:]
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2013, Dick Hrebik, Walter Goes to War—WWII, Rolling Meadows, IL: Windy City Publishers, Chapter 7, p. 133,
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Saw a congress of baboons of all sizes making their way to a mountaintop to spend the night on the rocks and trees there.
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On any given day as we drove through the bush in our Land Cruisers we saw: huge herds of cape buffalos; a journey of giraffes; thousands of wildebeest; a dazzle of zebras; gazelle and antelope of every size, shape, and color; large families of elephants-ranging from old bulls to teenagers; a cash of rhinos; a raft of hippopotami; large congresses of baboons; an occasional leap of leopards; and twenty-foot-long crocodiles that seem to be part of our prehistoric past. [2011, Al Gini, Seeking the Truth of Things, ACTA Publications:]
Nouns inflected like congress
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Latin congress(um), the past participle of congredior (“to go, come together”), itself from con- + gradior (“to go, step”). The verb is from the noun.
2. Compare typologically coven, convent, convention, omitting several steps, from con- + veniō, Russian сход (sxod), схо́дка (sxódka), akin to сходи́ться (sxodítʹsja), ходи́ть (xodítʹ). Also compare Czech sjezd, Russian съезд (sʺjezd), akin to съезжа́ться (sʺjezžátʹsja), е́здить (jézditʹ). Also compare conference. See: Latin Nouns '
congressum'.
Verbs referencing "congress"
Polish Nouns
kongres, Ukrainian Nouns
конгрес, Zulu Nouns
ukhongolose.