英语词汇“congress”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	congress
释义	con·gress I. \ˈkäŋgrə̇s also ˈkȯŋ-, chiefly in substand speech -ŋr-\ noun (-es) Etymology: Latin congressus, from congressus, past participle of congredi to go or come together, from com- + gradi to step, go — more at grade 1. a. : the act or action of coming together : a meeting especially of persons or mind < he was generally to be found in intellectual congress with Keyserling — Newsweek > b. : sexual intercourse, coition 2. : a meeting of heads of states or their foreign ministers, ambassadors, or envoys for discussion and adjustment of international problems or affairs < the Congress of Vienna > < parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests — Edmund Burke > 3. : the supreme legislative body of a nation and especially of a republic < in form at least the congresses of So. American nations resemble our own > < the Congress of the U.S. > 4. : an organization designed to promote some object of common interest to its membership and usually made up of delegates from a group of constituent organizations : association < the Massachusetts Congress of Parents and Teachers, Incorporated > < the Congress for Cultural Freedom > < the Canada Trades and Labor Congress > 5. : a particular meeting of a group (as a national legislature or cultural association) : a session or single sitting of an organization < the Seventy-first Congress was dominantly Republican — H.R.Penniman > < his committee … has over 3000 bills per Congress referred to it — Publishers' Weekly > < the Social Democratic party's congress was held in June > 6. : a coming together or meeting of persons < the rupture of the disciplined silence sent an uneasy stir among the exhausted congress of soldiers — Jack Belden > < a congress of goons and thugs — S.H.Holbrook > 7. : a seasonal assemblage of amphibians (as certain toads and frogs) for breeding purposes II. \kənˈgres\ intransitive verb (-ed/-ing/-es) : to come together : assemble
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