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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun legislator has 1 sense
- legislator(n = noun.person) Array - someone who makes or enacts laws; Array has particulars: backbencher, congressman, congresswoman, representative, crossbencher, deputy, filibuster, filibusterer, floor leader, frontbencher, majority leader, minority leader, member of parliament, parliamentarian, senator, party whip, whip, benton, old bullion, thomas hart benton
is a kind of lawgiver, lawmaker, politician
Derived forms verb legislate1, noun legislatorship1
CIDE DICTIONARY
legislator, n. [L. legis lator, prop., a proposer of a law; lex, legis, law + lator a proposer, bearer, fr. latus, used as p. p. of ferre to bear: cf. F. législateur. See Legal, and Tolerate.].
A lawgiver; one who makes laws for a state or community; a member of a legislative body. [1913 Webster]
"The legislators in ancient and heroical times."
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"Many of the legislators themselves had taken an oath of abjuration of his Majesty's person and family."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
legislator, n.
1 a member of a legislative body.
2 a lawgiver.
1 a member of a legislative body.
2 a lawgiver.
Etymology
L (as LEGISLATION)
THESAURUS
legislator
MP, Member of Congress, Member of Parliament, alderman, archon, assemblyman, bailie, burghermaster, burgomaster, cabinet member, cabinet minister, chancellor, chosen freeholder, city councilman, city father, city manager, commissar, commissioner, congressman, congresswoman, councillor, councilman, councilwoman, county commissioner, county supervisor, elder, floor leader, headman, induna, lawgiver, lawmaker, lord mayor, magistrate, maire, majority leader, mayor, minister, minister of state, minority leader, party whip, portreeve, reeve, representative, secretary, secretary of state, selectman, senator, solon, state senator, supervisor, syndic, undersecretary, warden, whipROGET THESAURUS
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Director
N director, manager, governor, rector, comptroller, superintendent, supervisor, straw boss, intendant, overseer, overlooker, supercargo, husband, inspector, visitor, ranger, surveyor, aedile, moderator, monitor, taskmaster, master, leader, ringleader, demagogue, corypheus, conductor, fugleman, precentor, bellwether, agitator, caporal, choregus, collector, file leader, flugelman, linkboy, guiding star, adviser, guide, pilot, helmsman, steersman, steermate, wire-puller, driver, whip, Jehu, charioteer, coachman, carman, cabman, postilion, vetturino, muleteer, arriero, teamster, whipper in, head, head man, head center, boss, principal, president, speaker, chair, chairman, chairwoman, chairperson, captain, superior, mayor, vice president, prime minister, premier, vizier, grand vizier, eparch, officer, functionary, minister, official, red-tapist, bureaucrat, man in office, Jack in office, office bearer, person in authority, statesman, strategist, legislator, lawgiver, politician, statist, statemonger, Minos, Draco, arbiter, boss, political dictator, board, secretary, secretary of state, Reis Effendi, vicar, steward, factor, agent, bailiff, middleman, foreman, clerk of works, landreeve, factotum, major-domo, seneschal, housekeeper, shepherd, croupier, proctor, procurator, ex officio.
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