upper house

English

Etymology

From upper +‎ house.

Noun

upper house (plural upper houses)

1. (government) The upper legislative house in a bicameral legislature; usually smaller and having more restricted power than the lower house.

   Coordinate terms: lower house, sole house

   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 286:

     It was, however, thrown out when it reached the " Upper House," as the Legislative Council is designated.

   • 2019 February 8, Helen Regan, Kocha Olarn, “This princess could be the next prime minister of Thailand”, in CNN International Edition‎^[1], 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 legislature

• Arabic: مَجْلِس عُلْوِيّ m (majlis ʕulwiyy)
• 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)
• Hungarian: felsőház (hu)
• Icelandic: efri deild f
• Italian: camera alta f
• Japanese: 上院 (ja) (じょういん, jōin)
• Korean: 상원(上院) (sang'won)
• Maori: Whare o Runga
• Navajo: adeií hooghan
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: overhus n

  Nynorsk: overhus n

• Polish: izba wyższa (pl) f
• Portuguese: câmara alta f
• Romanian: cameră superioară f
• Russian: ве́рхняя пала́та (ru) f (vérxnjaja paláta)
• Spanish: cámara alta f
• Swedish: överhus (sv) n
• Tagalog: mataas na kapulungan
• Thai: สภาสูง (sà-paa-sǔung)
• Ukrainian: ве́рхня пала́та f (vérxnja paláta)
• Vietnamese: thượng viện (vi)

See also

• House of Lords
• Senate