The turning point for the Karen meme, Schimkowitz says, came in May when a woman called the police after a Black birdwatcher in New York’s Central Park asked her to put a leash on her dog in keeping with a local ordinance.
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Ordinance
//ˈɔːdɪnəns//
Synonyms for "ordinance" (97 found)
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Closest matches (20)
Strong matches (29)
Related words (48)
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8 entriesSynonyms
2 entriescoordinate
1 entriesderived
6 entrieshas context
6 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
11 entriesTranslations
85 translations across 33 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- أَمْر noun (a local law or regulation)
Bulgarian
4 entries- декрет noun (edict, decree, order)
- обряд noun (a religious practice or ritual prescribed by the church)
- постановление noun (a local law or regulation)
- разпоредба noun (a local law or regulation)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 條令 /条令 noun (a local law or regulation)
- 條令 /条令 noun (edict, decree, order)
- 條例 /条例 noun (a local law or regulation)
- 條例 /条例 noun (edict, decree, order)
Czech
4 entries- liturgie noun (a religious practice or ritual prescribed by the church)
- nařízení noun (a local law or regulation)
- příkaz noun (a local law or regulation)
- ritus noun (a religious practice or ritual prescribed by the church)
Esperanto
1 entries- leĝeto noun (a local law or regulation)
Finnish
4 entries- asetus noun (a local law or regulation)
- käsky noun (edict, decree, order)
- liturgia noun (a religious practice or ritual prescribed by the church)
- määräys noun (edict, decree, order)
French
2 entries- décret noun (edict, decree, order)
- ordonnance noun (a local law or regulation)
Galician
1 entries- ordenanza noun (a local law or regulation)
Georgian
1 entries- ბრძანებულება noun (a local law or regulation)
German
4 entries- Anordnung noun (edict, decree, order)
- Dekret noun (edict, decree, order)
- Edikt noun (edict, decree, order)
- Erlass noun (edict, decree, order)
Hindi
1 entries- अध्यादेश noun (a local law or regulation)
Hungarian
1 entries- rendelet noun (edict, decree, order)
Indonesian
1 entries- ordonansi noun (edict, decree, order)
Irish
1 entries- reacht noun (edict, decree, order)
Japanese
3 entries- 条令 noun (a local law or regulation)
- 条令 noun (edict, decree, order)
- 条例 noun (edict, decree, order)
Kazakh
2 entries- жарлық noun (a local law or regulation)
- жарлық noun (edict, decree, order)
Korean
4 entries- 법령 noun (a local law or regulation)
- 법령 noun (edict, decree, order)
- 조례 noun (a local law or regulation)
- 조례 noun (edict, decree, order)
Latin
2 entries- ordinatio noun (a local law or regulation)
- ordinatio noun (edict, decree, order)
Macedonian
4 entries- декре́т noun (edict, decree, order)
- на́редба noun (a local law or regulation)
- о́бред noun (a religious practice or ritual prescribed by the church)
- у́каз noun (edict, decree, order)
Maltese
1 entries- ordinanza noun (edict, decree, order)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- forordning noun (edict, decree, order)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- forordning noun (edict, decree, order)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Aunordnunk noun (a local law or regulation)
Polish
4 entries- ordynacja noun (a local law or regulation)
- ordynacja noun (edict, decree, order)
- ordynacja noun (a religious practice or ritual prescribed by the church)
- rozporządzenie noun (a local law or regulation)
Portuguese
1 entries- ordenança noun (a local law or regulation)
Romanian
1 entries- ordonanță noun (a local law or regulation)
Russian
4 entries- обря́д noun (a religious practice or ritual prescribed by the church)
- ордона́нс noun (a local law or regulation)
- ордона́нс noun (edict, decree, order)
- ордона́нс noun (a religious practice or ritual prescribed by the church)
Slovak
1 entries- nariadenie noun (a local law or regulation)
Spanish
1 entries- ordenanza noun (a local law or regulation)
Swedish
1 entries- förordning noun (edict, decree, order)
Tagalog
2 entries- kautusan noun (a local law or regulation)
- ordenansa noun (a local law or regulation)
Ukrainian
3 entries- постано́ва noun (a local law or regulation)
- розпоря́дження noun (a local law or regulation)
- ука́з noun (a local law or regulation)
Vietnamese
2 entries- điều lệ noun (a local law or regulation)
- điều lệ noun (edict, decree, order)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
The attempts to overturn the ordinance still need to be passed by Congress.
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The new ordinance has been repealed.
Source: tatoeba (12225046)
From today on this ordinance is history.
Source: tatoeba (12225049)
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