congresses
- 1Plural of congress.
Medical congresses bring together researchers from around the world.
Delegates attended three separate congresses over the course of the summer.
Note
A regular -es plural, added because congress ends in a sibilant, as with addresses and successes. It counts the meetings and assemblies of the singular (medical congresses, party congresses) and, more playfully, groups of baboons, since a congress of baboons is their collective noun. The singular is often capitalized when it names a national legislature. The plural, which names several such bodies, usually is not.
congresses is a form of congress
congress, noun: The lawmaking body of a state, especially the two-chamber legislature of the United States. Full entry
- Forms
- congresscongresses plural
- Spelling
- congress → congresses: add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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