parliament | | |
n. (group) | 1. parliament | a legislative assembly in certain countries. |
| ~ interpellation | (parliament) a parliamentary procedure of demanding that a government official explain some act or policy. |
| ~ law-makers, legislative assembly, legislative body, legislature, general assembly | persons who make or amend or repeal laws. |
| ~ british parliament | the British legislative body. |
| ~ knesset, knesseth | the Israeli unicameral parliament. |
| ~ oireachtas | the parliament of the Irish Republic. |
| ~ britain, great britain, u.k., uk, united kingdom, united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland | a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom. |
n. (act) | 2. fantan, parliament, sevens | 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. |
| ~ card game, cards | a game played with playing cards. |
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