legislature

Other forms of legislature

plural

legislatures·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about legislature

What does legislature mean?

legislature means "persons who make or amend or repeal laws".

How many syllables are in legislature?

legislature has 4 syllables: leg-i-sla-ture. The stress falls on "leg". In IPA it is /ˈlɛdʒəˌsleɪtʃɚ/.

What is another word for legislature?

Close synonyms include legislative assembly, legislative body, general assembly, law-makers. 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 legislature a common word?

legislature is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.