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The Palace of Westminster in London, England, which is the seat of the Parliament of the United Kingdom


From Medieval Latin parlamentum, and its sources, Anglo-Norman and Old French parlement ‎(discussion, meeting, assembly, council), from parler ‎(to speak) + -ment, from Latin -mentum.


  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpɑːləmənt/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈpɑɹləmənt/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: par‧lia‧ment


parliament ‎(plural parliaments)

  1. (politics) Meanings relating to a political body authorized to exercise governmental powers.
      • 2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in The Guardian[1], London:
    2. A group of representatives of the people elected or appointed to serve as a parliament (in sense 1 above) for a certain period of time. In this sense the word is commonly used with an ordinal number (for example, first parliament and 12th parliament) or a descriptive adjective (for example, Long Parliament, Short Parliament and Rump Parliament).
      Following the general election, Jane Doe took her oath of office as a member of the nation's fifth parliament.
      • 1834, Walter Scott, Tales of a Grandfather; being Stories Taken from Scottish History: Humbly Inscribed to Hugh Littlejohn, Esq. Second Series, in Two Volumes [Waverley Tales; 49][2], volume I, Parker's edition, Boston, Mass.: Samuel H[ale] Parker, OCLC 191248677, page 223:
        [T]he army under Lambert again thrust the Rump Parliament out of doors, and commenced a new military government, by means of a committee of officers, called the Council of Safety.
  2. A flock of owls or rooks.
  3. (historical) Parliament cake; a type of gingerbread.

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