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Alternative letter-case form of parliament, a specific parliament, particularly that of England or the United Kingdom.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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noun
A formal council summoned (especially by a monarch) to discuss important issues.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, historical, uncountable
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noun
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 collect and spend money, and in some cases exercise judicial powers; a legislature.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
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).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A gathering of birds, especially rooks or owls.
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Usage: collective, countable, uncountable
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noun
Parliament cake, a type of gingerbread.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, historical, uncountable
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noun
a length of time for which a parliament is summoned, in modern times therefore the period between two consecutive elections.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable, uncountable
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noun
a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: fantan, sevens
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Broader terms: card game, cards
noun
a legislative assembly in certain countries
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: legislature, legislative assembly, legislative body, general assembly, law-makers
Narrower terms: British Parliament, Knesset, Knesseth, Oireachtas
History
From Middle English parlement, from Anglo-Norman parliament, parlement, parliment and Old French parlement (“discussion, meeting, negotiation; assembly, council”), from parler (“to speak”) + -ment (“-ment”, suffix forming nouns from verbs, usually indicating an action or state resulting from them) (from Latin -mentum). Compare Medieval Latin parlamentum, parliamentum (“discussion, meeting; council or court summoned by the monarch”), Italian parlamento and Sicilian parramentu.
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