House of Lords

American  

noun

1. the nonelective, upper house of the British Parliament, comprising the lords spiritual and lords temporal.

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House of Lords British  

noun

1. (in Britain) the upper chamber of Parliament, composed of the peers of the realm

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House of Lords Cultural  

1. The upper house of the parliament of Britain. The House of Lords is composed of the leading clergy and nobles of the country. (Compare House of Commons.)

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House of Lords

In 2012, it had also allowed her to bring her personal assistant into the chamber to read her speeches when required, the House of Lords press office said in a release.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

She became a leading disability rights campaigner and was appointed to the House of Lords, which is unelected, in 2007.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

Jane Campbell, a peer in the House of Lords upper chamber, struggles to speak naturally due to spinal muscular atrophy, a condition that worsens over time.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

He was released in 2003 and returned to the House of Lords until he retired in 2024.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

It is likely that the first British villages in North America, thousands of miles from the House of Lords, would have lost some of the brutally graded social hierarchy that characterized European life.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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