parliamentarian

See also: Parliamentarian

English

Etymology

parliament +‎ -arian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌpɑː(ɹ)ləmənˈtɛəɹiən/

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Noun

parliamentarian (plural parliamentarians)

1. (Commonwealth) A member of a parliament, congress or an elected national legislative body of another name.

   Synonyms: congressman, MP, deputy

2. A person well-versed in parliamentary procedure.
3. (US) An officer in most legislative bodies charged with being well-versed in the parliamentary rules of that legislative house, and whose rulings are taken as authoritative, to be appealed only to the whole of the house itself under special rules.

Related terms

• Parliamentarian

Translations

member of parliament

• Arabic: بَرْلَمَانِيّ m (barlamāniyy), بَرْلَمَانِيَّة f (barlamāniyya)
• Belarusian: парламента́рый m (parlamjentáryj), парлямэнта́рый m (parljamentáryj)
• Bulgarian: парламентари́ст m (parlamentaríst), парламентари́стка f (parlamentarístka)
• Catalan: parlamentari (ca) m, parlamentària (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 議會議員／议会议员 (yìhuì yìyuán), 國會議員／国会议员 (zh) (guóhuì yìyuán)

• Czech: parlamentář m, parlamentářka f
• Dutch: parlementariër (nl) m
• Esperanto: parlamentano
• Finnish: kansanedustaja (fi), parlamentaarikko (fi)
• French: parlementaire (fr) m or f
• Galician: parlamentario m, parlamentaria f
• German: Parlamentarier (de) m, Parlamentarierin (de) f
• Irish: parlaiminteoir m
• Italian: parlamentare (it) m
• Japanese: 国会議員 (こっかいぎいん, kokkai giin)
• Korean: 국회 의원(國會議員) (gukhoe uiwon)
• Manx: ard-whaiylagh
• Occitan: parlamentari m
• Polish: parlamentarzysta (pl) m, parlamentarzystka f
• Portuguese: parlamentar (pt) m or f
• Romanian: parlamentar (ro) m
• Russian: парламента́рий (ru) m (parlamentárij)
• Slovak: parlamentár m, parlamentárka f
• Slovene: parlamentarec m
• Spanish: parlamentario m, parlamentaria f
• Swedish: parlamentariker (sv) c, parlamentsledamot (sv) c
• Ukrainian: парламента́рій m (parlamentárij)
• Vietnamese: nghị sĩ (vi)
• Welsh: seneddwr m, seneddwraig f

Adjective

parliamentarian (comparative more parliamentarian, superlative most parliamentarian)

1. Of or relating to a parliament; favouring the establishment of a parliament.

   Synonym: parliamentary

   a parliamentarian democracy; the parliamentarian movement

   • 1946, Office of United States Chief Counsel For Prosecution of Axis Criminality, Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression, Washington, Volume 1, citing Wilhelm Frick,^[1]

     Our participation in the parliament does not indicate a support, but rather an undermining of the parliamentarian system.

2. (historical) Of or relating to the Parliamentarians (supporters of the parliament during the English Civil War (1642–1651)).
   • 1685, George Bate, Elenchus Motuum Nuperorum in Anglia, or, A Short Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Late Troubles in England‎^[2], London, page 41:

     [...] Deputies were sent with Commissions into all the Counties; and the Parliamentarian Rebels by force and their own authority, invade the Militia, which they could not obtain from the King by petitioning.

   • 1692, Anthony Wood, Athenæ Oxonienses‎^[3], volume 2, London: Thomas Bennet, page 291:

     But while he continued there, he shew’d himself a Dunce, a Tale-bearer to the Parliamentarian Visitors that then acted in the University, and a factious person.

   • 1771, [Oliver] Goldsmith, “Charles I. (Continued.)”, in The History of England, from the Earliest Times to the Death of George II. […], volume III, London: […] T[homas] Davies, […]; [T.] Becket and [P. A.] De Hondt; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 271:

     The Scotch and parliamentarian army had joined, and were beſieging York; when prince Rupert, joined by the marquis of Newcaſtle, determined to raiſe the ſiege.

   • 1895, Hereford Brooke George, chapter 9, in Battles of English History,‎^[4], London: Methuen, page 128:

     There were large regions which were very decidedly royalist, others almost as distinctly parliamentarian [...]