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 →

2) Parliament is the building where they meet. tree →

3) A parliament of owls is a name for a group of owls. tree →

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 →
• Our class visited Parliament in Canberra. tree →
• The new law passed through Parliament. tree →
• She wants to be a Member of Parliament. tree →
• Our school parliament voted for a new playground. tree →
• A parliament of owls sat in the barn. tree →
• The Houses of Parliament are next to Big Ben. tree →
• Each area elects people to parliament. tree →
• He speaks in the Parliament, not for the benefit of the country, but only for himself. tree →

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.
• The capital of the Netherlands is Amsterdam, but the government, parliament and the king's working palace are in The Hague.
• South Africa has three capitals: Pretoria for the government, Cape Town for parliament and Bloemfontein for the highest courts.
• Vikings settled Iceland and Greenland, and Iceland's Althing, founded in 930, is one of the oldest parliaments still working.
• Olaudah Equiano, once enslaved, wrote his life story, and William Wilberforce argued in Parliament for years to end the slave trade.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «parliament» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.