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HOUSE OF COMMONS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does House of Commons mean? 

HOUSE OF COMMONS (noun)
  The noun HOUSE OF COMMONS has 1 sense:

1. the lower house of the British parliamentplay

  Familiarity information: HOUSE OF COMMONS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HOUSE OF COMMONS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The lower house of the British parliament

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

British House of Commons; House of Commons

Hypernyms ("House of Commons" is a kind of...):

house (an official assembly having legislative powers)

Meronyms (members of "House of Commons"):

Member of Parliament; Parliamentarian (an elected member of the British Parliament: a member of the House of Commons)

Holonyms ("House of Commons" is a member of...):

British Parliament (the British legislative body)


 Context examples 


When I thought of the energy with which he had just been cursing the House of Commons, I could scarce keep from smiling, and I saw Sheridan put his hand up to his lips.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As the head of the house, he felt that he ought to have been consulted, especially after taking the young man so publicly by the hand; For they must have been seen together, he observed, once at Tattersall's, and twice in the lobby of the House of Commons.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

By way of going in for anything that might be on the cards, I call to mind that Mr. Micawber, about this time, composed a petition to the House of Commons, praying for an alteration in the law of imprisonment for debt.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

That the other part of the parliament consisted of an assembly called the House of Commons, who were all principal gentlemen, freely picked and culled out by the people themselves, for their great abilities and love of their country, to represent the wisdom of the whole nation.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I recall him bending his aching head, supported on his bony hand, over the book on his desk, and wretchedly endeavouring to get on with his tiresome work, amidst an uproar that might have made the Speaker of the House of Commons giddy.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)



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