单词 | upper house |
释义 | upper houseSEE SYNONYMS FOR upper house ON THESAURUS.COM nounone of two branches of a legislature generally smaller and less representative than the lower branch, as the Senate of the U.S. Congress. Origin of upper houseFirst recorded in 1525–35 Words nearby upper houseUpper East Side, Upper Egypt, upper extremity, upper GI series, upper hand, upper house, upper mordent, uppermost, upper motor neuron, Upper Palaeolithic, Upper Palatinate Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for upper house
British Dictionary definitions for upper houseupper house noun(often capitals) one of the two houses of a bicameral legislatureAlso called: upper chamber Compare lower house Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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