statute

1. 1.

   an act passed by a legislative body

   Synonymslegislative act

   Broaderact

   Narrowerfair-trade actStamp Actenabling actForeign Intelligence Surveillance Actordinancespecial act

   Partsrider

   law

1. 1.

   enacted by a legislative body

   “statute law”

   “codified written laws”

   Synonymscodified

   Similarwritten

Other forms of statute

plural

statutes·

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 statute

What does statute mean?

statute means "an act passed by a legislative body". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in statute?

statute has 2 syllables: stat-ute. The stress falls on "stat". In IPA it is /ˈstætʃut/.

What is another word for statute?

Close synonyms include legislative act, codified. 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 statute a common word?

statute is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.