parliament vs legislature

parliament and legislature both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
parliament	Yes	No	No	No
legislature	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, legislature is a hypernym of parliament; that is, legislature is a word with a broader meaning than parliament:

Other hypernyms of parliament include general assembly, law-makers, legislative assembly, legislative body.

parliament (noun)	legislature (noun)
a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards	persons who make or amend or repeal laws
a legislative assembly in certain countries