parliament

n. house of representatives, legislature, senate, official government council, national legislative body of certain countries

This article is about the legislative institution. For alternative meanings, see: Parliament (disambiguation). A parliament is a legislature, especially in those countries whose system of government is based on the Westminster system modelled after that of the United Kingdom. The name is derived from the French parlement, the action of parler (to speak): a parlement is a talk, a discussion, hence a meeting (an assembly, a court) where people discuss matters.
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Noun
1. a legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Great Britain)
(hypernym) legislature, legislative assembly, general assembly, law-makers
(hyponym) British Parliament
(classification) United Kingdom, UK, Great Britain, GB, Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
(class) interpellation
2. a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as their sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards
(synonym) fantan, sevens
(hypernym) card game, cards

(n.)
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.
  

(n.)
In France, before the Revolution of 1789, one of the several principal judicial courts.
  

(n.)
A parleying; a discussion; a conference.
  

(n.)
A formal conference on public affairs; a general council; esp., an assembly of representatives of a nation or people having authority to make laws.
  

Representative assembly first defined in the Magna Carta in the 13th century. First comprised of the king’s officers and the peers of the realm, the assembly gradually grew beyond the Barons to include knights of shires who were summoned by the sheriff . During the 14th century the English parliament split into two houses, the House of Lords , comprised of the Barons and Preates, overseen by the King, and the House of Commons , made up of the knights from the boroughs and shires that elected their own speaker to take their point of view before the King.