Upper House Definition

noun
In a legislature having two branches, that branch which is usually smaller and less representative, as the Senate of the U.S. Congress.
Webster's New World

One of the two parts of a parliament in some countries.

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Noun

Singular:
upper house
Plural:
upper-houses

Upper House Sentence Examples

  • In 1861 he became a member of the Lower Austrian diet and in 1869 was nominated to the Upper House of the Austrian Reichsrath.

  • In 1879 he was made hereditary member of the Upper House.

  • A final appeal is given to the archbishop of the par- tical/uris- ticular province; but in causes touching the king a final appeal is given to the Upper House of Convocation of the province.

  • He maintained his liberal and independent attitude in the Conseil des Anciens, the Senate and the Chamber of Peers, being president of the upper house during the Hundred Days.

  • In the Upper House he was the spokesman of the gentry against the magnates, whose inordinate privileges he would have curtailed or abolished.

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