upper house

upper house

English

Noun

upper house (plural upper houses)

1. One of the two parts of a parliament in some countries, usually smaller and having more restricted power than the lower house.
   • Olarn, Kocha; Regan, Helen (2019-02-08), “This princess could be the next prime minister of Thailand”, in CNN International Edition‎, Cable News Network, retrieved 2019-02-08

     In March, Thais will vote for the 500-seat lower house of parliament. But the 250-member upper house, or Senate, will be chosen entirely by the military.

Synonyms

• upper chamber

Hypernyms

• house (structurally)

Translations

part of a parliament

Arabic: مَجْلِس عُلْوِيّ‎ m (majlis ʿulwiyy) Belarusian: ве́рхняя пала́та f (vjérxnjaja paláta) Bulgarian: го́рна ка́мара f (górna kámara) Burmese: အထက်လွှတ်တော် (my) (a.htakhlwattau) Chinese: Mandarin: 元老院 (zh) (yuánlǎoyuàn), 上院 (zh) (shàngyuàn) Czech: horní sněmovna f Danish: overhus n Finnish: ylähuone (fi) French: chambre haute (fr) f Georgian: ზედა პალატა (zeda ṗalaṭa), ზემო პალატა (zemo ṗalaṭa) German: Oberhaus (de) n Greek: άνω βουλή f (áno voulí) Icelandic: efri deild f Italian: camera alta f Japanese: 上院 (じょういん, jōin)

Korean: 상원 (sang-won) Maori: Whare o Runga Navajo: adeií hooghan Norwegian: Bokmål: overhus n Polish: izba wyższa (pl) f Portuguese: câmara alta f Romanian: camera superioară f Russian: ве́рхняя пала́та (ru) f (vérxnjaja paláta) Spanish: cámara alta f Swedish: överhus n Tagalog: mataas na kapulungan Thai: สภาสูง (sà-paa-sǔung) Ukrainian: ве́рхня пала́та f (vérxnja paláta) Vietnamese: thượng viện

See also

• House of Lords
• Senate
• lower house