lawgiver

Questions about lawgiver

What does lawgiver mean?

lawgiver means "a maker of laws; someone who gives a code of laws".

How many syllables are in lawgiver?

lawgiver has 3 syllables and divides as law-gi-ver under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for lawgiver?

Close synonyms include lawmaker. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lawgiver a common word?

lawgiver is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.