1. (n.)parliament (cap.) the national legislature of Great Britain, consisting of the House of Commons and the House of Lords.
2. parliament (cap.) the national legislature of certain former British colonies and possessions.
3. parliament (cap.) the national legislature in various other countries.
4. parliament any of several high courts of justice in France before 1789.
5. parliament an assembly on public or national affairs.
Etymology: (1250–1300; ME: discourse, consultation, Parliament < AL parliamentum, alter. of ML parlāmentum < OF parlement a speaking, conference <parler to speak; see parley)
Definition of 'parliament'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)parliament a legislative assembly in certain countries
2. (noun)fantan, sevens, parliament 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
1. (noun)parliament a group of elected people who decide how a country should be run a discussion in parliament
Definition of 'parliament'
Webster Dictionary
1. (noun)parliament a parleying; a discussion; a conference
2. (noun)parliament a formal conference on public affairs; a general council; esp., an assembly of representatives of a nation or people having authority to make laws
3. (noun)parliament 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
4. (noun)parliament in France, before the Revolution of 1789, one of the several principal judicial courts
Definitions of 'parliament'
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
1. parliament is the name of the great legislative council of Britain representing the three estates of the realm—Clergy, Lords, and Commons. The Clergy are represented in the Upper House by the archbishops and bishops of sees founded prior to 1846, in number 26; the rest of the Upper House comprises the dukes, marquises, earls, viscounts, and barons of the peerage of Great Britain who sit in virtue of their titles, and representatives of the Scotch and Irish peerages elected for life; the total membership is over 550; the House of Lords may initiate any bill not a money bill, it does not deal with financial measures at all except to give its formal assent; it also revises bills passed by the Commons, and may reject these. Of late years this veto has come to be exercised only in cases where it seems likely that the Commons do not retain the confidence of the people, having thus the effect of referring the question for the decision of the constituencies. The Lords constitute the final court of appeal in all legal questions, but in exercising this function only those who hold or have held high judicial office take part. The House of Commons comprises 670 representatives of the people; its members represent counties, divisions of counties, burghs, wards of burghs, and universities, and are elected by owners of land and by occupiers of land or buildings of £10 annual rental who are commoners, males, of age, and not disqualified by unsoundness of mind, conviction for crime, or receipt of parochial relief. The Commons initiates most of the legislation, deals with bills already initiated and passed by the Lords, inquires into all matters of public concern, discusses and determines imperial questions, and exercises the sole right to vote supplies of money. To become law bills must pass the successive stages of first and second reading, committee, and third reading in both Houses, and receive the assent of the sovereign, which has not been refused for nearly two centuries.
Definitions of parliament 
Afrikaans: parlement
Arabic: بَرْلَمان، المَجلِس النِّ
Bulgarian: парламент
Brazilian: parlamento
Czech: parlament
German: das Parlament
Danish: parlament
Greek: κοινοβούλιο, βουλή
Spanish: parlamento
Estonian: parlament
Farsi: پارلمان؛ مجلس
Finnish: parlamentti
French: parlement
Hebrew: בֵּית-נִבחָרִים
Hindi: संसद
Croatian: parlament
Hungarian: országgyűlés, parlament
Indonesian: parlemen
Icelandic: (þjóð)þing, löggjafarþing
Italian: parlamento
Japanese: 議会
Korean: 국회
Lithuanian: parlamentas
Latvian: parlaments
Malay: parlimen
Dutch: parlement
Norwegian: parlament, storting
Polish: parlament
Persian: پارلمان؛ مجلس
Pashto: پارلمان،شورا(اولسی اومشرا
Portuguese: parlamento
Romanian: parlament
Russian: парламент
Slovak: parlament
Slovenian: parlament
Serbian: parlament
Swedish: parlament, riksdag
Thai: รัฐสภา
Turkish: parlamento, millet meclis
Taiwanese: 議會，國會
Ukrainian: парламент
Urdu: پارليمان، پارليمنٹ
Vietnamese: quốc hội
Chinese: 议会，国会
