Congress vs. Senate

Congressnoun

(archaic) A coming together of two or more people; a meeting.

Congressnoun

A formal gathering or assembly; a conference held to discuss or decide on a specific question.

Congressnoun

(often capitalized: Congress) A legislative body of a state, originally the bicameral legislature of the United States of America.

Congressnoun

An association, especially one consisting of other associations or representatives of interest groups.

Congressnoun

Coitus; sexual intercourse.

Congressverb

(intransitive) To assemble together.

Congressverb

To meet in a congress.

Congressnoun

A meeting of individuals, whether friendly or hostile; an encounter.

Congressnoun

A sudden encounter; a collision; a shock; - said of things.

Congressnoun

The coming together of a male and female in sexual commerce; the act of coition.

Congressnoun

A gathering or assembly; a conference.

Congressnoun

A formal assembly, as of princes, deputies, representatives, envoys, or commissioners; esp., a meeting of the representatives of several governments or societies to consider and determine matters of common interest.

Congressnoun

The collective body of senators and representatives of the people of a nation, esp. of a republic, constituting the chief legislative body of the nation.

Congressnoun

The lower house of the Spanish Cortes, the members of which are elected for three years.

Congressnoun

the legislature of the United States government

Congressnoun

a meeting of elected or appointed representatives

Congressnoun

a national legislative assembly

Congressnoun

the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman; the man's penis is inserted into the woman's vagina and excited until orgasm and ejaculation occur

Congress

Congresses are formal meetings of the representatives of different countries, constituent states, organizations, trade unions, political parties or other groups. The term originated in Late Middle English to denote an encounter (meeting of adversaries) during battle, from the Latin congressus.

Senatenoun

In some bicameral legislative systems, the upper house or chamber.

Senatenoun

A group of experienced, respected, wise individuals serving as decision makers or advisors in a political system or in institutional governance, as in a university, and traditionally of advanced age and male.

Senatenoun

An assembly or council having the highest deliberative and legislative functions.

Senatenoun

The upper and less numerous branch of a legislature in various countries, as in France, in the United States, in most of the separate States of the United States, and in some Swiss cantons.

Senatenoun

The governing body of the Universities of Cambridge and London.

Senatenoun

In some American colleges, a council of elected students, presided over by the president of the college, to which are referred cases of discipline and matters of general concern affecting the students.

Senatenoun

assembly possessing high legislative powers

Senatenoun

the upper house of the United States Congress

Senatenoun

the smaller upper assembly in the US, US states, France, and other countries

Senatenoun

the governing body of a university or college.

Senatenoun

the state council of the ancient Roman republic and empire, which shared legislative power with the popular assemblies, administration with the magistrates, and judicial power with the knights.

Senate

A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: Senatus), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: senex meaning or ) and therefore considered wiser and more experienced members of the society or ruling class.