parliament 音標拼音: [p'ɑrləmənt]
n . 議會,國會
議會,國會
parliament n 1 :
a legislative assembly in certain countries 2 :
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 [
synonym : {
fantan }, {
sevens },
{
parliament }]
Parliament \
Par "
lia *
ment \,
n . [
OE .
parlement ,
F .
parlement ,
fr .
parler to speak ;
cf .
LL .
parlamentum ,
parliamentum .
See {
Parley }.]
1 .
A parleying ;
a discussion ;
a conference . [
Obs .]
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But first they held their parliament . --
Rom .
of R .
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2 .
A formal conference on public affairs ;
a general council ;
esp .,
an assembly of representatives of a nation or people having authority to make laws .
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They made request that it might be lawful for them to summon a parliament of Gauls . --
Golding .
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3 .
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 .
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Note :
Thought the sovereign is a constituting branch of Parliament ,
the word is generally used to denote the three estates named above .
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4 .
In France ,
before the Revolution of 1789 ,
one of the several principal judicial courts .
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{
Parliament heel },
the inclination of a ship when made to careen by shifting her cargo or ballast .
{
Parliament hinge } (
Arch .),
a hinge with so great a projection from the wall or frame as to allow a door or shutter to swing back flat against the wall .
{
Long Parliament }, {
Rump Parliament }.
See under {
Long },
and {
Rump }.
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33 Moby Thesaurus words for "
parliament ":
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 PARLIAMENT .
This word ,
derived from the French parlement ,
in the English law ,
is used to designate the legislative branch of the government of Great Britain ,
composed of the house of lords ,
and the house of commons .
2 .
It is an error to regard the king of Great Britain as forming a part of parliament .
The connexion between the king and the lords spiritual ,
the lords temporal ,
and the commons ,
which ,
when assembled in parliament ,
form the ,
three states of the realm ,
is the same as that which subsists between the king and those states --
the people at large --
out of parliament ;
Colton '
s Records ,
710 ;
the king not being ,
in either case ,
a member ,
branch ,
or co -
estate ,
but standing solely in the relation of sovereign or head .
Rot .
Par .
vol .
iii ,.
623 a .;
2 Mann . &
Gr .
457 n .
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