house of commons

1. 1.

   the lower house of the British parliament

   SynonymsBritish House of Commons

   Broaderhouse

   Part ofBritish Parliament

Questions about house of commons

What does house of commons mean?

house of commons means "the lower house of the British parliament".

What is another word for house of commons?

Close synonyms include British House of Commons. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is house of commons a common word?

house of commons is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.