houses of parliament

1. 1.

   the building in which the House of Commons and the House of Lords meet

   Broaderbuilding

   Part ofWestminster

Questions about houses of parliament

What does houses of parliament mean?

houses of parliament means "the building in which the House of Commons and the House of Lords meet".

Is houses of parliament a common word?

houses of parliament 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.