WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026
-gress-, root.
- -gress- comes from Latin, where it has the meaning "step;
move.'' It is related to -grad-. This meaning is found in such words as: aggression, congress, digress, egress, ingress, progress, regress, transgress.
'-gress-' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Albany Congress
- American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations
- congress boot
- Congress of Industrial Organizations
- Congress of Vienna
- contempt of Congress
- Continental Congress
- gressorial
- infinite regress
- labiogression
- Library of Congress
- Library of Congress classification
- pre-Congress