| Meaning | A maker of laws; someone who gives a code of laws. | |
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| Synonym | lawmaker | |
| Category | law, jurisprudence | The collection of rules imposed by authority |
| Instances | Draco | Athenian lawmaker whose code of laws prescribed death for almost every offense (circa 7th century BC) |
| Narrower | legislator | someone who makes or enacts laws |
| promulgator | (law) one who promulgates laws (announces a law as a way of putting it into execution) | |
| Broader | leader | A person who rules or guides or inspires others |
| Spanish | legislador | |
| Catalan | legislador | |
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