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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

the other place en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (euphemistic) Hell
    • According to Christianity, when someone dies, they go to either Heaven or the other place.
  2. (qualifier:parliamentary) the other house of a bicameral legislature (used by members of one house when speaking in their own house); in the UK, the House of Lords seen from the House of Commons or vice versa; in Canada, the Senate seen from the House of Commons or vice versa.
    • [W]e all trooped from our end of the building to the House of Lords - which I'm told, for some reason, we must never refer to by name. We have to call it 'another place' or 'the other place'[.] 1999, Gyles Brandreth, chapter 3, in Breaking the Code:
  3. (UK, derogatory, qualifier:Oxford University slang) University of Cambridge
  4. (UK, derogatory, qualifier:Cambridge University slang) University of Oxford

Relateds

the other body · another place