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: law-gi-ver. The stress falls on "law".

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.