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Meeting vs Parliament - What's the difference?

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Meeting is a related term of parliament.


As a verb meeting

is .

As a noun meeting

is (uncountable) the action of the verb to meet .

As a proper noun parliament is

any of several parliaments of various countries.

meeting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

  • (uncountable) The action of the verb to meet .
  • A gathering of people/parties for a purpose.
    • We need to have a meeting about that soon.
  • The people at such a gathering, as a collective.
    • What has the meeting decided.
  • An encounter between people, even accidental.
    • They came together in a chance meeting on the way home from work.
  • A place or instance of junction or intersection.
    • Earthquakes occur at the meeting of tectonic plates.
  • A religious service held by a charismatic preacher in small towns in the United States.
  • *1939 , (John Steinbeck), (The Grapes of Wrath) , p. 20:
  • *:You use ta give a good meetin' . I recollect one time you give a whole sermon walkin' around on your hands, yellin' your head off.

    • Derived terms

    * meetinghouse * meeting of the minds * meeting place * meeting room * race meeting * Sunday-go-to-meeting

    Synonyms

    * assembly * convocation * gathering

    Descendants

    * Crimean Tatar: (l) (borrowed) * French: (l) (borrowed) * Russian: (borrowed) * Serbo-Croatian: (l)/ (borrowed) * Tagalog: (l) (borrowed)

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    parliament

    English

    (wikipedia parliament)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Meanings relating to a political body authorized to exercise governmental powers.
  • # An institution whose elected or appointed members meet to debate the major political issues of the day and usually to exercise legislative powers and sometimes judicial powers.
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  • # A group of representatives of the people elected or appointed to serve as a parliament (in sense 1 above)'' for a certain period of time. In this sense the word is commonly used with an ordinal number (for example, ''first parliament'' and ''12th parliament'') or a descriptive adjective (for example, ''(Long Parliament)'', ''(Short Parliament)'' and ''(Rump Parliament) ).
  • Following the general election, Jane Doe took her oath of office as a member of the nation's fifth parliament .
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  • A collective noun for a flock of owls or rooks.
  • (historical) Parliament cake; a type of gingerbread.
  • * 1869 , RD Blackmoore, Lorna Doone , Chapter II:
    • A certain boy leaning up against me would not allow my elbow room, and struck me very sadly in the stomach part, though his own was full of my parliament .

    Derived terms

    * hung parliament * Member of Parliament * majority parliament * minority parliament * parliamental * parliamentarian * parliamentary * Polish parliament