house of representatives

Questions about house of representatives

What does house of representatives mean?

house of representatives means "the lower legislative house of the United States Congress".

What is another word for house of representatives?

Close synonyms include United States House of Representatives, U.S. House of Representatives, US House of Representatives, U.S. House, US House. 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 representatives a common word?

house of representatives 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.