parliament
pronunciation
How to pronounce parliament in British English:
UK [ˈpɑːləmənt]
How to pronounce parliament in American English:
US [ˈpɑːrləmənt]
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- Noun:
- a legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Great Britain)
- 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
Word Origin
- parliament
- parliament: [13] The French verb parler ‘talk’ has made a small but significant contribution to English. Amongst its legacies are parlance [16], parley [16], parlour [13] (etymologically a ‘room set aside for conversation’), and parliament itself. This came from the Old French derivative parlement, which originally meant ‘talk, consultation, conference’, but soon passed to ‘formal consultative body’, and hence to ‘legislative body’. French parler was a descendant of medieval Latin parabolāre ‘talk’, which was derived from the Latin noun parabola (source of English parable, parabola, and parole).=> ballistic, parable, parlour
- parliament (n.)
- c. 1300, "consultation; formal conference, assembly," from Old French parlement (11c.), originally "a speaking, talk," from parler "to speak" (see parley (n.)); spelling altered c. 1400 to conform with Medieval Latin parliamentum. Anglo-Latin parliamentum is attested from early 13c. Specific sense "representative assembly of England or Ireland" emerged by mid-14c. from general meaning "a conference of the secular and/or ecclesiastical aristocracy summoned by a monarch."
Example
- 1. In 2010 , the parliament passed a law enabling the government to issue new licenses at minimal cost .
- 2. The european parliament on wednesday overwhelmingly rejected acta , the anti-counterfeiting trade agreement .
- 3. The european parliament may want more powers .
- 4. Parliament operates an effective scrutiny system .
- 5. Within two weeks a joint legislative programme must be presented to parliament .