Usually means: Formal meetings of representative delegates.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word congresses:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. congresses: Merriam-Webster
  2. congresses: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Congresses, congresses: Vocabulary.com
  4. Congresses, congresses: Wordnik
  5. congresses: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. congresses: Wiktionary
  7. Congresses: Dictionary.com
  8. congresses: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Congresses: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Congresses: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. congresses: FreeDictionary.org
  12. Congresses: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. congresses: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Congresses: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Congresses: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. congresses: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Congress)

noun:  (archaic) A coming together of two or more people; a meeting.
noun:  A formal gathering or assembly; a conference held to discuss or decide on a specific question.
noun:  (often capitalized) A legislative body of a state, originally the bicameral legislature of the United States of America.
noun:  An association, especially one consisting of other associations or representatives of interest groups.
noun:  (dated) Coitus; sexual intercourse.
noun:  (countable, collective) A group of baboons; the collective noun for baboons.
verb:  (intransitive) To assemble together.
verb:  To meet in a congress.
noun:  The two legislative bodies of the United States: the House of Representatives and the Senate.
noun:  (Philippines) The legislature of the Philippines.
noun:  (more specifically) The House of Representatives of the Philippines.
noun:  A census-designated place in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States.
noun:  A village in Wayne County, Ohio, United States.
noun:  A hamlet in the Rural Municipality of Stonehenge, No. 73, Saskatchewan, Canada.
noun:  (US) A two-year session of the Congress, commencing after a Federal election and ending before the next one.
noun:  (India) Clipping of Indian National Congress.
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