All 4 Uses of
parliament
in
The Poisonwood Bible
- Father said Lumumba's party won thirty-five of a hundredy-some-odd seats in the new parliament, mainly because of his natural animal magnetism.†
Chpt 2 *parliament = legislative assembly that passes laws (existing in some countries)
- He says now Patrice Lumumba and the other elected Congolese are trading chickens and eggs to set up a government that everybody in the parliament will go along with.†
Chpt 2
- I can just picture the parliament room: a hundredy-some-odd Tata Ndus in pointy hats and no-glass glasses all flicking flies away with animal-tail magic wands in the sweltering heat, pretending to ignore each other.†
Chpt 2
- So they marched the army into parliament and reorganized it once again in Mobutu's favor.†
Chpt 5
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) 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.