legislature

Questions about legislature

What is another word for legislature?

It depends which legislature you mean. In the sense “persons who make or amend or repeal laws”, the synonyms are legislative assembly, legislative body, 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 legislature?

WordNet records no antonym for legislature. 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 legislature 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 legislature

• Full entry for legislatureAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for legislatureWords matching from the last stressed vowel onward, grouped by syllable count.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.