All national assembly synonyms
na·tion·al as·sem·bly
N n noun national assembly
- assembly — An assembly is a large group of people who meet regularly to make decisions or laws for a particular region or country.
- congress — Congress is the elected group of politicians that is responsible for making the law in the United States. It consists of two parts: the House of Representatives and the Senate.
- diet — the legislative body of certain countries, as Japan.
- parliament — (usually initial capital letter) the legislature of Great Britain, historically the assembly of the three estates, now composed of Lords Spiritual and Lords Temporal, forming together the House of Lords, and representatives of the counties, cities, boroughs, and universities, forming the House of Commons.
- chamber of deputies — the lower house of the legislature of certain countries, as Italy.
- general assembly — the legislature in some states of the U.S.
- house of assembly — the legislature or the lower house of the legislature in certain countries of the Commonwealth of Nations.
- legislative assembly — the legislature of France 1791–92.
- soviet — (before the revolution) any governmental council. (after the revolution) a local council, originally elected only by manual workers, with certain powers of local administration. (after the revolution) a higher council elected by a local council, being part of a hierarchy of soviets culminating in the Supreme Soviet.