All parliament synonyms

noun parliament

• legislative assembly — the legislature of France 1791–92.
• legislature — a deliberative body of persons, usually elective, who are empowered to make, change, or repeal the laws of a country or state; the branch of government having the power to make laws, as distinguished from the executive and judicial branches of government.
• governing body — board, regulatory authority
• house of representatives — the lower legislative branch in many national and state bicameral governing bodies, as in the United States, Mexico, and Japan.
• groupthink — the practice of approaching problems or issues as matters that are best dealt with by consensus of a group rather than by individuals acting independently; conformity.
• house — a building in which people live; residence for human beings.
• chamber of deputies — the lower house of the legislature of certain countries, as Italy.
• directorate — the office of a director.
• council — A council is a group of people who are elected to govern a local area such as a city or, in Britain, a county.
• diet — the legislative body of certain countries, as Japan.
• general assembly — the legislature in some states of the U.S.
• 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.
• national assembly — the body constituted by the French Third Estate in June 1789 after the calling of the Estates General. It was dissolved in Sept 1791 to be replaced by the new Legislative Assembly
• house of assembly — the legislature or the lower house of the legislature in certain countries of the Commonwealth of Nations.