a legislative assembly or the lower chamber of such an assembly, esp in various British colonies and countries of the Commonwealth
house of assembly in American English
noun
the legislature or the lower house of the legislature in certain countries of the Commonwealth of Nations
Word origin
[1645–55]This word is first recorded in the period 1645–55. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: bulletin, complex, halftone, regulator, soup