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Parliament comes from a French word meaning what?

parliament

[pahr-luh-muhnt, pahrl-yuh-] / ˈpɑr lə mənt, ˈpɑrl jə- /


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Along with his petition, Stevenson also raised the issue in Canada's parliament during a late sitting on Thursday.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

In the interim, Netanyahu would remain prime minister, but his supporters would form only a minority of parliament.

From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2026

Rezaei’s role as a key interlocutor could sideline other Iranian figures such as Araghchi or Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of parliament.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Last week, Libya's eastern-based parliament approved a maritime demarcation deal with Turkey, years after rejecting it when it was first signed.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

“A group of owls is a parliament, not a brood,” she explained.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

He said this would include taking power away from devolved parliaments and empowering communities.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

Popes rarely address parliaments, trying to avoid overt political interventions.

From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026

The idea runs back at least to the influential 18th-century English jurist William Blackstone, who instructed that “Acts of parliament derogatory from the power of subsequent parliaments bind not.”

From Slate ● May 26, 2026

This particular form of instability—in which electoral outcomes haven’t caught up with voters’ frustrations—has long plagued polities on the Continent, where proportional voting systems accelerate the fracturing of authority in parliaments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

The Haudenosaunee thus would have the second oldest continuously existing representative parliaments on earth.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann


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