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Parliament comes from a French word meaning what?

parliament

[pahr-luh-muhnt, pahrl-yuh-] / หˆpษ‘r lษ™ mษ™nt, หˆpษ‘rl jษ™- /


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

From Slate โ— Oct. 30, 2026

Takaichi told parliament earlier this month that she had recorded episodes of Vivant and planned to watch them over the year-end holidays.

From BBC โ— Oct. 29, 2026

Before he served as head of state, Herzog was elected to Israel's parliament in 2003 and held portfolios including housing, tourism and welfare.

From Barron's โ— Oct. 28, 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 โ— Oct. 28, 2026

He says now Patrice Lumumba and the other elected Congolese are trading chickens and eggs to set up a government that everybody in the parliament will go along with.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

The Senedd, in common with the other parliaments in the UK, has no requirement for members to face a by-election if they leave the party they represented when they were elected.

From BBC โ— Sep. 16, 2026

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

From Barron's โ— 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 โ— May 26, 2026

In next week's elections, voters in Scotland and Wales will go to the polls to elect representatives in the national parliaments, while voters in England will elect councillors in around 5,000 local authority seats.

From BBC โ— Apr. 29, 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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