PARLIAMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does parliament mean? 

• PARLIAMENT (noun)
  The noun PARLIAMENT has 2 senses:

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

  Familiarity information: PARLIAMENT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARLIAMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A legislative assembly in certain countries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("parliament" is a kind of...):

general assembly; law-makers; legislative assembly; legislative body; legislature (persons who make or amend or repeal laws)

Domain member category:

interpellation ((parliament) a parliamentary procedure of demanding that a government official explain some act or policy)

Domain region:

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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "parliament"):

British Parliament (the British legislative body)

Knesset; Knesseth (the Israeli unicameral parliament)

Oireachtas (the parliament of the Irish Republic)

Derivation:

parliamentary (relating to or having the nature of a parliament)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

fantan; parliament; sevens

Hypernyms ("parliament" is a kind of...):

card game; cards (a game played with playing cards)

 Context examples 

His mother wished to interest him in political concerns, to get him into parliament, or to see him connected with some of the great men of the day.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I dare say he will be in parliament soon.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Parliament had risen.

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

I then spoke at large upon the constitution of an English parliament; partly made up of an illustrious body called the House of Peers; persons of the noblest blood, and of the most ancient and ample patrimonies.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Then followed the history and rise of the ancient and respectable family, in the usual terms; how it had been first settled in Cheshire; how mentioned in Dugdale, serving the office of high sheriff, representing a borough in three successive parliaments, exertions of loyalty, and dignity of baronet, in the first year of Charles II, with all the Marys and Elizabeths they had married; forming altogether two handsome duodecimo pages, and concluding with the arms and motto:—Principal seat, Kellynch Hall, in the county of Somerset, and Sir Walter's handwriting again in this finale:—Heir presumptive, William Walter Elliot, Esq., great grandson of the second Sir Walter.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

That is not much to the purpose now; and as to my being in parliament, I believe I must wait till there is an especial assembly for the representation of younger sons who have little to live on.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

That the other part of the parliament consisted of an assembly called the House of Commons, who were all principal gentlemen, freely picked and culled out by the people themselves, for their great abilities and love of their country, to represent the wisdom of the whole nation.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

This was not so very easy a question to answer, and occasioned an Oh! of some length from the fair lady before she could add, You ought to be in parliament, or you should have gone into the army ten years ago.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)