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parliamentarian

[ pahr-luh-men-tair-ee-uhn, -muhn-or, sometimes, pahrl-yuh- ]

noun

  1. a person who is expert in the formal rules and procedures of deliberative assemblies and other formal organizations.
  2. (sometimes initial capital letter) British. a member of Parliament.
  3. (initial capital letter) a partisan of the British Parliament in opposition to Charles I.


Parliamentarian

1

/ ˌpɑːləmɛnˈtɛərɪən /

noun

  1. a supporter of Parliament during the English Civil War


adjective

  1. of or relating to Parliament or its supporters during the English Civil War

parliamentarian

2

/ ˌpɑːləmɛnˈtɛərɪən /

noun

  1. an expert in parliamentary procedures, etc
  2. sometimes capital a Member of Parliament

adjective

  1. of or relating to a parliament or parliaments

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Word History and Origins

Origin of parliamentarian1

First recorded in 1605–15; parliament + -arian

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Example Sentences

Organized by far-right Belgian parliamentarian Laurent Louis, the congress was ultimately banned by authorities.

She might be young for a parliamentarian at 31, but she is no naïve agitator.

Ukraine Parliamentarian Lesya Orobets has not slept in days.

Ilias Kasidiaris, a young party member and parliamentarian, was sitting alongside two female politicians on a political chat show.

After 15 years under house arrest, Suu Kyi is now a parliamentarian and has political calculations to consider.

To reduce that town, the Parliamentarian forces marched through Peterborough about the middle of the month of April.

The effect of all this harshness naturally was to make the Birmingham folk even more Parliamentarian than before.

He was deprived of his wardenship and imprisoned by the Parliamentarian commissioners when they visited Oxford.

No Parliamentarian troops were ever marched out of the county until the issue at home was decided.

It was fortunate for the Parliamentarian cause in Lancashire that the largest town in the county was on its side.

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