legislative body

Questions about legislative body

What is another word for legislative body?

It depends which legislative body you mean. In the sense “persons who make or amend or repeal laws”, the synonyms are legislature, legislative assembly, general assembly, law-makers. Across all 1 sense there are 4 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of legislative body?

WordNet records no antonym for legislative body. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for legislative body come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of legislative body

• Full entry for legislative bodyAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for legislative bodyWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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