house of lords

1. 1.

   the upper house of the British parliament

   SynonymsBritish House of Lords

   Broaderhouse

   Part ofBritish Parliament

Questions about house of lords

What does house of lords mean?

house of lords means "the upper house of the British parliament".

What is another word for house of lords?

Close synonyms include British House of Lords. 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 lords a common word?

house of lords 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.