Congressional vs. Parliament — What's the Difference?

Of or relating to a congress

In modern politics and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government. Generally, a modern parliament has three functions: representing the electorate, making laws, and overseeing the government via hearings and inquiries.

Relating to or working in the office of a member or members of a congress

A representative body having supreme legislative powers within a state or multinational organization.

A member of a congress.

Parliament The national legislature of the United Kingdom, made up of the House of Lords and the House of Commons.

Of or pertaining to a congress.

A formal council summoned (especially by a monarch) to discuss important issues.

Of or pertaining to a congress, especially, to the Congress of the United States; as, congressional debates.

In many countries, the legislative branch of government, a deliberative assembly or set of assemblies whose elected or appointed members meet to debate the major political issues of the day, make, amend, and repeal laws, authorize the executive branch of government to spend money, and in some cases exercise judicial powers; a legislature.

Of or relating to congress;

A particular assembly of the members of such a legislature, as convened for a specific purpose or period of time (commonly designated with an ordinal number – for example, first parliament or 12th parliament – or a descriptive adjective – for example, Long Parliament, Short Parliament and Rump Parliament).

A gathering of birds, especially rooks or owls.

(historical) Parliament cake, a type of gingerbread.

A parleying; a discussion; a conference.

A formal conference on public affairs; a general council;

The assembly of the three estates of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, viz., the lords spiritual, lords temporal, and the representatives of the commons, sitting in the House of Lords and the House of Commons, constituting the legislature, when summoned by the royal authority to consult on the affairs of the nation, and to enact and repeal laws.

In France, before the Revolution of 1789, one of the several principal judicial courts.

A legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Great Britain)

A card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as their sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards