legislator
pronunciation
How to pronounce legislator in British English:
UK [ˈledʒɪsleɪtə(r)]
How to pronounce legislator in American English:
US [ˈlɛdʒɪˌsletɚ]
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- Noun:
- someone who makes or enacts laws
Word Origin
- legislator (n.)
- c. 1600, from Latin legis lator "proposer of a law," from legis, genitive of lex "law" + lator "proposer," agent noun of latus "borne, brought, carried" (see oblate (n.)), used as past tense of ferre "to carry" (see infer). Fem. form legislatrix is from 1670s.
Example
- 1. One democratic party legislator quit the party in protest .
- 2. A villager confides her support for the new legislator only in a hushed tone .
- 3. But he was more than a legislator .
- 4. That leaves olympia snowe , the free-spirited republican from maine , as the most courted legislator in recent memory .
- 5. He ought rather to be remembered for his 47 years of manly toil in the senate , where he was a staggeringly capable legislator .