- parliament
- n1.Usu. Parliament, British legislature, House of Lords, Lords Spiritual, Lords Temporal, House of Commons.2. legislature, congress, senate, diet, assembly, upper and lower house or chamber, Both Early Eng. Hist. witangemot, witan; lawmakers, Inf. grey beards; council, board, panel, lawmaking or governing body; Congress of the United States, U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives; General Assembly, House of Delegates, (in the U.S.S.R.) Soviet, (in Russia) Duma, (in France) Chamber of Deputies, Austrian and German Hist. Reichstag, (both in West Germany) Bundesrat, Bundestag, (in Sweden) Riksdag, (all in Denmark) Folketing, Rigsdag, Landsding, (in Eire) Oireachtas, (in Spain) Cortes, (in Portugal) Cortes Geraes, (in the Netherlands) States-General, (in Japan) House of Councilors or (formerly) Peers.3. meeting, convention, convocation, conclave, summit, caucus, session; colloquy, colloquium, forum, round table; conference, parley, palaver, consultation, huddle, Archaic. parle.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.