an assembly of the representatives of a political nation or people, often the supreme legislative authority

any legislative or deliberative assembly, conference, etc

(in France before the Revolution) any of several high courts of justice in which royal decrees were registered

the highest legislative authority in Britain, consisting of the House of Commons, which exercises effective power, the House of Lords, and the sovereign

a similar legislature in another country

the two chambers of a Parliament

the lower chamber of a Parliament

any of the assemblies of such a body created by a general election and royal summons and dissolved before the next election