House of Lords
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- proper noun
- UK
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Cámara de los Lores
- And members of the House of Lords have to be UK, Irish, or Commonwealth citizens.
And the team that I lead has given face to face evidence to the House of Lords.
- And the team that I lead has given face to face evidence to the House of Lords.
- Then I met her in the House of Lords for tea.
Examples
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We have bishops in the House of Lords involved in our legislature.
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But some members of the House of Lords seem to have done so.
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Then I met her in the House of Lords for tea.
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I was just about to take my seat in the House of Lords.
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We'll send you to the House of Lords instead.
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One was found recently in the House of Lords.
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Now, there may not be a lot of appetite for House of Lords reform.
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I've got a seat waiting for me in the House of Lords.
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At the same time, Lord Lester introduced a bill in the House of Lords that called for incorporating the Convention into domestic law.
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After deliberation, the proposal was approved in the House of Lords without any opposition.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is partly compositional: a learner who knows 'house' (as a legislative body) and 'lord' (a noble/peer) can infer it denotes an assembly of lords and thus a parliamentary chamber. However, the precise constitutional role (that it is the UK’s upper chamber, its membership patterns and reviewing function) is culturally specific and not fully deducible from the words alone, so the transparency is only partial.
Etymology
The House of Lords takes its name from a simple image: a House where the Lords—important nobles and church leaders—met to discuss and check laws, so the name now means 'the upper chamber of Parliament'.