Thesaurus:legislature

Thesaurus

legislature

English

Noun

Sense: assembly with the power to make, amend and repeal laws

Synonyms

• legislature
• legislative body

Hypernyms

• entity    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

• assembly
• chamber
• congress
• council
• diet
• duma
• hung parliament
• parliament
• senate
• lower house
• lower chamber
• upper house
• upper chamber
• bicameral legislature

Holonyms

• country    [⇒ thesaurus]

Meronyms

Groups

• committee
• crossbenches
• backbench
• front bench

Individual members

• backbencher
• congressman
• congresswoman
• frontbencher
• lawgiver
• lawmaker
• legislator
• MEP
• Member of Parliament
• MP
• parliamentarian
• politician    [⇒ thesaurus]
• senator
• speaker    [⇒ thesaurus]

Instances

• Althing
• Bundestag
• Dáil Éireann
• European Parliament
• Folketing
• House of Commons
• House of Delegates
• House of Lords
• House of Representatives
• Knesset
• Lok Sabha
• Odelsting
• Oireachtas
• Rajya Sabha
• Reichstag
• Riksdag
• Seanad Éireann
• Sejm
• Senate
• Senedd
• Storting
• Supreme Soviet

See also

• W:Category:National legislatures
• Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/48 § legislature
• Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/93 § upper house
• Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/50 § lower house
• Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/55 § national assembly

Further reading

• “legislature” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
• "legislature" in WordNet 3.1, Princeton University, 2011.
• Wikidata:Q11204: legislature