All 7 Uses of
parliament
in
The Silver Chair
- CHAPTER FOUR — A PARLIAMENT OF OWLS†
Chpt 4parliament = legislative assembly that passes laws (existing in some countries)
- Let us hold a parliament of owls.
Chpt 4 *parliament = legislative assembly
- And what I want to say is this, that I'm the King's man; and if this parliament of owls is any sort of plot against the King, I'm having nothing to do with it.†
Chpt 4parliament = legislative assembly that passes laws (existing in some countries)
- If this owls' parliament, as you call it, is all fair and above board and means no mischief, why does it have to be so jolly secret— meeting in a ruin in dead of night, and all that?†
Chpt 4
- One or two owls added that even here in the ruined tower it wasn't nearly so dark as it had been when they began, and that the parliament had been going on quite long enough.†
Chpt 4
- Ever since the owls' parliament began she had been yawning terribly and now she had dropped off.†
Chpt 5
- And when they found she wasn't much good even at that, they got her into Parliament where she lived happily ever after.†
Chpt 16
Definitions:
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(1)
(parliament with a lowercase "p") a legislative assembly in certain countries (that can pass laws)
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) As a proper noun, you need to look at the context to determine the parliament to which Parliament is referring. For example, it could be the British Parliament, the European Union Parliament, the French Parliament, etc.