きぞくいん

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of きぞくいん – see the following entry.
貴族院
[proper noun] (history) the House of Peers (upper house of Japan's Imperial Diet)
[proper noun] the House of Lords (upper house of Britain's or Ireland's Parliament)
[proper noun] (history) the Chamber of Peers (upper house of France's Parliament)
(This term, きぞくいん (kizokuin), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)