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# parliament

«parliament» in Mova's school dictionary: **a group of people elected to make the laws of a country** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a parliament, parliaments; Parliament)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A parliament is a group of people elected to make the laws of a country. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parliament/#m1)

2) Parliament is the building where they meet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parliament/#m2)

3) A parliament of owls is a name for a group of owls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parliament/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In citizenship and history lessons pupils learn that the UK, Canada, Australia, NZ and Ireland have parliaments (in Ireland the Oireachtas, with the Dáil; the USA has Congress instead). Schools may have a school parliament or council. Phrases: Member of Parliament (MP), Houses of Parliament, act of parliament.

### examples

- Parliament makes the laws of the country. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parliament/#x1)
- Our class visited Parliament in Canberra. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parliament/#x2)
- The new law passed through Parliament. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parliament/#x3)
- She wants to be a Member of Parliament. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parliament/#x4)
- Our school parliament voted for a new playground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parliament/#x5)
- A parliament of owls sat in the barn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parliament/#x6)
- The Houses of Parliament are next to Big Ben. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parliament/#x7)
- Each area elects people to parliament. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parliament/#x8)
- He speaks in the Parliament, not for the benefit of the country, but only for himself. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parliament/#x9)

### note

Capital P when it means one country's parliament. Spelling trap: the "ia" is silent-ish: par-li-a-ment, said PAR-luh-ment. Adjective: parliamentary. MP = Member of Parliament.

### In the corpora

- [Parliament is where elected representatives, called MPs in the UK, debate and vote on new laws.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/31-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge/15/)
- [The capital of the Netherlands is Amsterdam, but the government, parliament and the king's working palace are in The Hague.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/7-europe-countries-and-capitals/12/)
- [South Africa has three capitals: Pretoria for the government, Cape Town for parliament and Bloemfontein for the highest courts.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/13-africa-countries-and-capitals/12/)
- [Vikings settled Iceland and Greenland, and Iceland's Althing, founded in 930, is one of the oldest parliaments still working.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/20-the-middle-ages-begin-the-vikings/15/)
- [Olaudah Equiano, once enslaved, wrote his life story, and William Wilberforce argued in Parliament for years to end the slave trade.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/31-slavery-and-its-abolition/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «parliament» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/parliament/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.