HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Houses of Parliament mean? 

• HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT (noun)
  The noun HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT has 1 sense:

1. the building in which the House of Commons and the House of Lords meet

  Familiarity information: HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The building in which the House of Commons and the House of Lords meet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

building; edifice (a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place)

Holonyms ("Houses of Parliament" is a part of...):

City of Westminster; Westminster (a borough of Greater London on the Thames; contains Buckingham Palace and the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey)

 Context examples 

“Let us try to reconstruct the situation,” said he as we drove swiftly past the Houses of Parliament and over Westminster Bridge.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A crime of mysterious character was committed last night at 16, Godolphin Street, one of the old-fashioned and secluded rows of eighteenth century houses which lie between the river and the Abbey, almost in the shadow of the great Tower of the Houses of Parliament.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)