LEGISLATURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does legislature mean? 

• LEGISLATURE (noun)
  The noun LEGISLATURE has 1 sense:

1. persons who make or amend or repeal laws

  Familiarity information: LEGISLATURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEGISLATURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Persons who make or amend or repeal laws

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

general assembly; law-makers; legislative assembly; legislative body; legislature

Hypernyms ("legislature" is a kind of...):

assembly (a group of persons who are gathered together for a common purpose)

Domain member category:

scrutin uninomial system; scrutin uninominal voting system; single-member system; uninominal system; uninominal voting system (based on the principle of having only one member (as of a legislature) selected from each electoral district)

sergeant at arms; serjeant-at-arms (an officer (as of a legislature or court) who maintains order and executes commands)

appropriation (money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose)

one-member; uninominal (based on the system of having only one member from each district (as of a legislature))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "legislature"):

senate (assembly possessing high legislative powers)

Congress; U.S. Congress; United States Congress; US Congress (the legislature of the United States government)

house (an official assembly having legislative powers)

legislative council (a unicameral legislature)

congress (a national legislative assembly)

diet (a legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Japan))

parliament (a legislative assembly in certain countries)

Duma (a legislative body in the ruling assembly of Russia and of some other republics in the former USSR)

Holonyms ("legislature" is a member of...):

authorities; government; regime (the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit)

Derivation:

legislate (make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation)

 Context examples 

So far, still no sign of the Interphone results, so I suppose they will come out during the next legislature.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

The U.S. legislature, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives.

(Congress, NCI Thesaurus)

And that these two bodies made up the most august assembly in Europe; to whom, in conjunction with the prince, the whole legislature is committed.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

They have purchased your slave judges, they have debauched your slave legislatures, and they have forced to worse horrors than chattel slavery your slave boys and girls.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A go-between in the legislature

(Legislative Liaison, NCI Thesaurus)

This legislature is coming to a close.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

I described that extraordinary care always taken of their education in arts and arms, to qualify them for being counsellors both to the king and kingdom; to have a share in the legislature; to be members of the highest court of judicature, whence there can be no appeal; and to be champions always ready for the defence of their prince and country, by their valour, conduct, and fidelity.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)