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unicameral

Syllables: uni·cam·er·al/juːniːˈkaməɹəl/US/junɪˈkæməɹəl/

unicameral adjective: of, or having, a single legislative chamber.

unicameral: of, or having, a single legislative chamber
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Adjective

unicameral (not comparable)

  1. Of, or having, a single legislative chamber.
    • Those who criticize bicameralism stress that a unicameral legislature will be more efficient and faster in taking decisions.2002, Levent Gönenç, Prospects for Constitutionalism in Post-Communist Countries, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, →ISBN, page 341
    • [W]e could define a national parliament broadly as a Member State's central representative assembly which elects or at least dismisses the national government, and which holds it to account. This seems to be a robust definition comprising the unicameral parliaments, the lower chambers of the...2006, Philipp Kiiver, The National Parliaments in the European Union: A Critical View on EU Constitution-building, The Hague: Kluwer Law International, →ISBN, page 21
  2. Of a script or typeface: making no distinction between upper and lower case, but rather having only one case.
    • In the ancient world, Greek was written in a script that was unicameral and atonic. It consisted of a single set of forms – the ones we now regard as upper case. There was little or no punctuation, and there were no diacritics.2004, Letter Arts Review, volume 19, Norman, Okla.: Calligraphy Review, →OCLC, page 37
    • There have been several misunderstandings with regard to Georgian. The Unicode table speaks of "capital" Georgian letters (for example, georgian capital letter an) and of caseless letters (for example, georgian letter an). In fact, the modern Georgian script is unicameral. Two issues gave rise to...2007 September, Yannis Haralambous, translated by P. Scott Horne, Fonts & Encodings, Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN, page 75

unicameral meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Kannada and Indonesian

unicameral in Hindi

unicameral
एकसदनीय eksadanīy

unicameral in Tamil

ஒரே அவையுடைய, ஓரவை

unicameral in Kannada

ಏಕಸಭೆಯ, ಒಂದೇ ಶಾಸನಸಭೆಯ

unicameral in Indonesian

having a single legislative chamber
unikameral

Examples of unicameral in a sentence

  • This seems to be a robust definition comprising the unicameral parliaments, the lower chambers of the bicameral parliaments and the senates with censure powers in the EU Member States.2006, Philipp Kiiver, The National Parliaments in the European Union: A Critical View on EU Constitution-building, The Hague: Kluwer Law...
  • The five countries have unicameral National Assemblies.2008, Josep M. Colomer, editor, Comparative European Politics, 3rd edition, Abingdon, Oxon.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 11:
  • In 1951 New Zealand's parliament was converted into a unicameral one with the abolition of the upper, nominated chamber, the Legislative Council.2009, Clyve Jones, “Epilogue”, in Clyve Jones, editor, A Short History of Parliament: England, Great Britain, the United Kingdom, Ireland &...
  • In fact, the modern Georgian script is unicameral.2007 September, Yannis Haralambous, translated by P. Scott Horne, Fonts & Encodings, Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN, page...

Synonyms of unicameral

Antonyms

Origin of unicameral

From uni- + cameral.

Words formed from unicameral

Questions about unicameral

What does unicameral mean?
Unicameral means of, or having, a single legislative chamber.
What is unicameral in Hindi?
Unicameral in Hindi is एकसदनीय (eksadanīy). See Unicameral meaning in Hindi.
How do you use unicameral in a sentence?
This seems to be a robust definition comprising the unicameral parliaments, the lower chambers of the bicameral parliaments and the senates with censure powers in the EU Member States.
What part of speech is unicameral?
Unicameral is an adjective.
How do you pronounce unicameral?
Unicameral is pronounced /juːniːˈkaməɹəl/ (UK).

Words near unicameral in the dictionary

  1. unibrowed
  2. unibrows
  3. unic
  4. unica
  5. unicalcarate
  6. unicameral
  7. unicameralism
  8. unicameralist
  9. unicameralists
  10. unicamerally
  11. unicamerate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unicameral (page history and authors); एकसदनीय (Hindi) (page history and authors); unicameral (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unicameral (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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