House of Lords
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
House of Lords
▶noun (in the UK) the chamber of Parliament composed of peers and bishops.
■ a committee of specially qualified members of this, appointed as the ultimate judicial appeal court of England and Wales.
'House of Lords' also found in these Oxford entries:
backwoodsman
- Black Rod
- content
- cross-bencher
- HL
- law lord
- lord
- Lord Chancellor
- Lords spiritual
- Lords temporal
- McNaghten rules
- non-content
- other
- parliament
- peer of the realm
- supreme court
- upper house
- Woolsack

