Parliament
WordNet

noun


(1)   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
(2)   A legislative assembly in certain countries
WiktionaryText

Etymology


From and its sources, and , from .

Noun



  1. Institution whose elected or appointed members meet to debate the major political issues of the day and usually to exercise legislative powers and sometimes judicial powers.
  2. The collective noun for a group of rooks or owls.
  3. Parliament cake; a type of gingerbread.
    • 1869, RD Blackmoore, Lorna Doone, Chapter II:
      A certain boy leaning up against me would not allow my elbow room, and struck me very sadly in the stomach part, though his own was full of my parliament.
 
x
OK