Usually means: Legislative body of elected representatives.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. parliament: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. parliament: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. parliament: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. parliament: Collins English Dictionary
  5. parliament: Vocabulary.com
  6. Parliament, parliament: Wordnik
  7. parliament: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Parliament, parliament: Wiktionary
  9. parliament: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. parliament: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. parliament: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. parliament: Dictionary.com
  13. parliament: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. parliament: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Parliament (South Africa), Parliament (band), Parliament (cigarette), Parliament (disambiguation), Parliament: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Parliament: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. parliament: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. parliament: Rhymezone
  19. parliament: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. parliament: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. parliament: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Parliament: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. parliament: Free Dictionary
  24. parliament: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. parliament: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. parliament: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. parliament: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. parliament: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Parliament: Political
  2. Arms and Armour (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Parliament: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Parliament: Card Games

(Note: See parliaments as well.)

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noun:  (now chiefly historical) A formal council summoned (especially by a monarch) to discuss important issues.
noun:  In many countries, the legislative branch of government, a deliberative assembly or set of assemblies whose elected or appointed members meet to debate the major political issues of the day, make, amend, and repeal laws, authorize the executive branch of government to spend money, and in some cases exercise judicial powers; a legislature.
noun:  A particular assembly of the members of such a legislature, as convened for a specific purpose or period of time (commonly designated with an ordinal number – for example, first parliament or 12th parliament – or a descriptive adjective – for example, Long Parliament, Short Parliament and Rump Parliament).
noun:  A gathering of birds, especially rooks or owls.
noun:  (historical) Parliament cake, a type of gingerbread.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of parliament, a specific parliament, particularly that of England or the United Kingdom. [(now chiefly historical) A formal council summoned (especially by a monarch) to discuss important issues.]

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