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PARLIAMENT
Definition of PARLIAMENT
noun
A formal council summoned (especially by a monarch) to discuss important issues.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English parlement, from Anglo-Norman parliament, parlement, parliment and Old French parlement (“discussion, meeting, negotiation; assembly, council”), from parler (“to speak”) + -ment (“-ment”, suffix forming nouns from verbs, usually indicating an action or state resulting from them) (from Latin -mentum). Compare Medieval Latin parlamentum, parliamentum (“discussion, meeting; council or court summoned by the monarch”), Italian parlamento and Sicilian parramentu.
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Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
2.9%
of traced words share this origin (854)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PARLIAMENT · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Italian, Latin.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PARLIAMENT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 18 boards so far. 22 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 136, 3 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.
First found by a player on Day 27, 16 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PARLIAMENT starts with P and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AAEILMNPRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start PARLIA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 27
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