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PARLIAMENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("parliament" is a kind of...):
card game; cards (a game played with playing cards)
Sense 2
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)
