Parliament

Noun

 * 1) Institution whose elected or appointed members meet to debate the major political issues of the day and usually to exercise legislative powers and sometimes judicial powers.
 * 2)  The collective noun for a group of rooks  or owls.
 * 3)  Parliament cake; a type of gingerbread.
 * 4) * 1869, RD Blackmoore, Lorna Doone, Chapter II:
 * A certain boy leaning up against me would not allow my elbow room, and struck me very sadly in the stomach part, though his own was full of my parliament.

Derived terms

 * hung parliament
 * Member of Parliament
 * minority parliament
 * majority parliament


 * parliamental
 * parliamentary
 * Polish parliament

Related terms

 * parliamentarian

Adjectives for Parliament
insular; empiric.

Verbs for Parliament
attend—; call—; conduct—; consult—; dissolve—; invest in—; petition—; represent in —; request—; summon—; sway—; —advises; —appropriates; —assembles; —convenes; —debates; —discusses; —frames; — imposes; —levies.

Thesaurus
Parliament, assembly, bicameral legislature, board of aldermen, chamber of deputies, city board, city council, commission, common council, congress, council, court, diet, federal assembly, general assembly, house of assembly, legislative assembly, legislative body, legislative chamber, legislature, lower chamber, lower house, national assembly, provincial legislature, provincial parliament, representative town meeting, soviet, state assembly, state legislature, town meeting, unicameral legislature, upper chamber, upper house

Etymology
From parlamentum: and its sources,  and  parlement:, from parler:, and -ment:.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic:, برلمان
 * Armenian: խորհրդարան, պառլամենտ
 * Catalan: parlament
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 議會, 议会
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Finnish:, , valtiopäivät
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient:
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew: הפרלמנט
 * Hindi: संसद
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: alþingi
 * Irish: parlaimint, pharlaimint
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kurdish:


 * Latin:
 * Maltese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Manx: ard-whaiyl
 * Ngarrindjeri:
 * Norwegian: Stortinget
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scots: pairlament
 * Scottish Gaelic: pàrlamaid
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: парламент, скупштина
 * Roman: parlament, skupština
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Volapük: dail
 * Welsh: senedd
 * West Frisian: parlemint


 * German: Eulenschwarm


 * Volapük: lülem