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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Example Sentences

The House of Lords are continuing to debate the proposals but it is clear there is not enough time to complete all the stages before May when a new session begins.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

Last month, the House of Lords backed an amendment to the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill to ban smartphones in schools.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

The bill was passed by the Commons in June last year but has been stalled in the House of Lords for months and is now unlikely to pass.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

The end is nigh for hereditary peers, whose inherited right to sit in the House of Lords is set to be stripped from them after the passage of a new law this week.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 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