Legislator
/ˈlɛd͡ʒɪˌsleɪtə/ noun
noun ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Someone who creates or enacts laws.; especially a member of a legislative body.
"Give the children of the poor that portion of education which will enable them to know their own resources; which will cultivate in them an onward-looking hope, and give them rational amusement in their leisure hours: this, and this only, will work out that moral revolution, which is the legislator's noblest purpose."
- 2 someone who makes or enacts laws wordnet
- 3 Someone who creates or enacts laws.; especially not any individual member of a legislative body but the abstracted author of a statute or statutes relevant for the principles of interpretation.
Example
More examples"The legislator talked at length with his constituents about beach erosion."
Etymology
From Latin lēgislātor.