The legislator talked at length with his constituents about beach erosion.
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Legislator
/ˈlɛd͡ʒɪˌsleɪtə/
Synonyms for "legislator" (72 found)
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Closest matches (15)
aldermanarchonassemblymanbailieburghermasterburgomastercabinet membercabinet ministerchancellorchosen freeholdercity councilmancity fathercity managercommissar
Noun(1 words)
Strong matches (21)
commissionercongressmancongresswomancouncillorcouncilmancouncilwomancounty commissionercounty supervisorelderfloor leaderheadmanindunalawgiverlawmaker
Related words (36)
Adjective(3 words)
legislative lawgiverportuguese políticosenatorial roman
Noun(6 words)
lord mayormagistratemairemajority leadermayormember of congressmember of parliamentministerminister of stateminority leadermpparty whippoliticianportreevereeverepresentativesecretarysecretary of stateselectmansenator
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More general
6 entriesMore specific
4 entriesCollocations
6 entrieselected legislatorfederal legislatorjunior legislatorlocal legislatorsenior legislatorstate legislator
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
6 entriesTranslations
103 translations across 60 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- ligjvënës noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- νομοθέτης noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Arabic
3 entries- شارِع noun (who creates or enacts laws)
- مُشَرِّع noun (who creates or enacts laws)
- مُشَرِّعَة noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Armenian
1 entries- օրենսդիր noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- qanunverici noun (who creates or enacts laws)
- qanunverən noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Belarusian
2 entries- заканада́вец noun (who creates or enacts laws)
- заканада́ўца noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Bulgarian
2 entries- законода́тел noun (who creates or enacts laws)
- законода́телка noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Catalan
2 entries- legislador noun (who creates or enacts laws)
- legisladora noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 立法者 noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 立法者 noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Czech
2 entries- zákonodárce noun (who creates or enacts laws)
- zákonodárkyně noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Danish
3 entries- lovgiver noun (who creates or enacts laws)
- lovgiverinde noun (who creates or enacts laws)
- lovgiverske noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Dutch
2 entries- wetgeefster noun (who creates or enacts laws)
- wetgever noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Esperanto
2 entries- parlamentanino noun (who creates or enacts laws)
- parlamentano noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Estonian
1 entries- seadusandja noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Finnish
1 entries- lainsäätäjä noun (who creates or enacts laws)
French
2 entries- législateur noun (who creates or enacts laws)
- législatrice noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Georgian
1 entries- კანონმდებელი noun (who creates or enacts laws)
German
4 entries- Gesetzesmacher noun (who creates or enacts laws)
- Gesetzesmacherin noun (who creates or enacts laws)
- Gesetzgeber noun (who creates or enacts laws)
- Gesetzgeberin noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Greek
2 entries- νομοθέτης noun (who creates or enacts laws)
- νομοθέτις noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Hindi
2 entries- विधायक noun (who creates or enacts laws)
- व्यवस्थापक noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Hungarian
1 entries- törvényhozó noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Indonesian
1 entries- legislator noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Irish
1 entries- reachtóir noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Italian
2 entries- legislatore noun (who creates or enacts laws)
- legislatrice noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Japanese
1 entries- 立法者 noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Kazakh
1 entries- заң шығарушы noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Khmer
1 entries- នីតិបុគ្គល noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Korean
2 entries- 립법자 noun (who creates or enacts laws)
- 입법자 noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Lao
1 entries- ນິຕິບຸກຄົນ noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Latin
1 entries- lēgislātor noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Latvian
2 entries- likumdevēja noun (who creates or enacts laws)
- likumdevējs noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Lithuanian
1 entries- leidėjas noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Macedonian
1 entries- законодавец noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Māori
3 entries- kaihanga ture noun (who creates or enacts laws)
- kaiwhakaarature noun (who creates or enacts laws)
- kaiwhakature noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Norman
1 entries- législateu noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- lovgiver noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- lovgivar noun (who creates or enacts laws)
- lovgjevar noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Old English
1 entries- ǣlǣdend noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- قانونجی noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Persian
1 entries- قانونگذار noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Jesazjäwa noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Polish
4 entries- legislator noun (who creates or enacts laws)
- prawodawca noun (who creates or enacts laws)
- prawodawczyni noun (who creates or enacts laws)
- ustawodawca noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Portuguese
2 entries- legislador noun (who creates or enacts laws)
- legisladora noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Romanian
4 entries- legislatoare noun (who creates or enacts laws)
- legislator noun (who creates or enacts laws)
- legiuitoare noun (who creates or enacts laws)
- legiuitor noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Russian
2 entries- законода́тель noun (who creates or enacts laws)
- законода́тельница noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- zakonodávac noun (who creates or enacts laws)
- zakonòdāvka noun (who creates or enacts laws)
- законо̀да̄вка noun (who creates or enacts laws)
- законода́вац noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Slovak
2 entries- zákonodarca noun (who creates or enacts laws)
- zákonodarkyňa noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Slovene
2 entries- zakonodajalec noun (who creates or enacts laws)
- zakonodajalka noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Spanish
2 entries- legislador noun (who creates or enacts laws)
- legisladora noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Swedish
2 entries- lagstiftare noun (who creates or enacts laws)
- lagstifterska noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Tagalog
3 entries- lehislador noun (who creates or enacts laws)
- lehisladora noun (who creates or enacts laws)
- mambabatas noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Tajik
1 entries- қонунгузор noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Thai
1 entries- ผู้บัญญัติกฎหมาย noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Turkish
1 entries- yasa koyucu noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Ukrainian
2 entries- законода́вець noun (who creates or enacts laws)
- законода́виця noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Urdu
1 entries- قانون ساز noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Uzbek
1 entries- qonun chikaruvchi noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Vietnamese
2 entries- người làm luật noun (who creates or enacts laws)
- người lập pháp noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Welsh
1 entries- deddfwr noun (who creates or enacts laws)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
There is merit even in the mentally retarded legislator. He asks the questions that everyone is afraid to ask for fear of seeming simple.
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For Newton, as for Boyle and Descartes, there were laws of nature only because there had been a (Divine) Legislator.
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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.
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