About The Word Legislator
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Legislator
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What's The Definition Of Legislator?
[n] someone who makes or enacts laws
Synonyms | Synonyms for Legislator: Related Terms | Find terms related to Legislator: 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 | Member of Congress | Member of Parliament | minister | minister of state | minority leader | MP | party whip | portreeve | reeve | representative | secretary | secretary of state | selectman | senator | solon | state senator | supervisor | syndic | undersecretary | warden | whip See Also | backbencher | Benton | congressman | congresswoman | crossbencher | deputy | filibuster | filibusterer | floor leader | frontbencher | lawgiver | lawmaker | majority leader | Member of Parliament | minority leader | Old Bullion | Parliamentarian | party whip | politician | representative | senator | Thomas Hart Benton | whip Legislator In Webster's Dictionary \Leg"is*la`tor\ (l[e^]j"[i^]s*l[=a]`t[~e]r), 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. l['e]gislateur. See {Legal}, and {Tolerate}.]
A lawgiver; one who makes laws for a state or community; a
member of a legislative body.
The legislators in ancient and heroical times. --Bacon.
Many of the legislators themselves had taken an oath of
abjuration of his Majesty's person and family. --E.
Phillips.
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