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1. A meeting of elected or appointed representatives
    
2. A national legislative assembly
    
3. The social act of assembling for some common purpose
   "the lovers met discreetly for the purposes of sexual congress";
   - meeting, coming together

1. The legislature of the United States government
   - United States Congress, U.S. Congress, US Congress

Derived forms: congresses, Congresses

Type of: assemblage, assembly, gathering, general assembly, group meeting, law-makers, legislative assembly, legislative body, legislature, meeting

Part of: legislative branch

Encyclopedia: Congress, OH