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Definition of Legislator
1. Noun. Someone who makes or enacts laws.
Specialized synonyms: Backbencher, Congressman, Congresswoman, Representative, Crossbencher, Deputy, Filibuster, Filibusterer, Floor Leader, Frontbencher, Majority Leader, Minority Leader, Member Of Parliament, Parliamentarian, Senator, Party Whip, Whip
Generic synonyms: Lawgiver, Lawmaker, Politician
Specialized synonyms: Benton, Old Bullion, Thomas Hart Benton
Derivative terms: Legislate, Legislatorship
Definition of Legislator
1. n. A lawgiver; one who makes laws for a state or community; a member of a legislative body.
Definition of Legislator
1. Noun. Someone who creates or enacts laws, especially a member of a legislative body. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Legislator
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Legislator
Literary usage of Legislator
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The State and the Church by John Augustine Ryan, Moorhouse F. X. Millar (1922)
"If the existence of moral obligation depends upon the will of the legislator,
the same dependence must logically be predicated of the degree of obligation. ..."
2. Memoirs of the Private and Public Life of William Penn by Thomas Clarkson (1813)
"View of him as a legislator upon Christian principles in opposition to those ...
trait in his character as a Christian legislator, namely, his readiness to ..."
3. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"... maxims on this subject—that in all things sameness is the mother of satiety.
THE ROMAN legislator THE Roman legislator, according to Dionysius of Hali- ..."
4. James Monroe by Daniel Coit Gilman, John Franklin Jameson (1898)
"CHAPTER II legislator AND GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA ... was called into service as a
legislator at a very early period of his life. If his public career had been ..."
5. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1838)
"Thus, a legislator of ancient Rome (in a passage of Livy, quoted by the Author
... Here the legislator begins the song of obloquy, expecting that the people ..."
6. The Science of Law by Sheldon Amos (1874)
"It may be noticed, at the outset, that the supreme legislator and the judge ...
The legislator must needs put the general tendency and consequences of a law ..."
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