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House of Commons

Definition of House of Commons

Proper noun

House of Commons

  1. (Politics, British, Canadian) The lower house of the UK and Canadian Houses of Parliament

    * 1842, William Chambers, Robert Chambers, Chambers's Information for the People, page 178
    Reckoning from 1802 till November 15, 1837, there were thirteen Houses of Commons

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