English
Etymology
1676, from stem of legislator + -ure, cognate with French législature.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈlɛd͡ʒɪsˌleɪt͡ʃɚ/
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈlɛd͡ʒɪsləˌt͡ʃʊə/, /ˈlɛd͡ʒɪslət͡ʃə/
- Hyphenation: le‧gis‧la‧ture
Noun
legislature (plural legislatures)
- A governmental body with the power to make, amend and repeal laws.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:legislature
- (Canada) The legislative assembly of a province or territory, as opposed to the federal parliament.
- (Canada) A legislative building.
Derived terms
Translations
governmental body with the power to make, amend and repeal laws
- Armenian: օրենսդիր մարմին (ōrensdir marmin), օրենսդիր (hy) (ōrensdir)
- Belarusian: заканада́ўчая ўла́да f (zakanadáŭčaja ŭláda)
- Bulgarian: законодателна власт (zakonodatelna vlast)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 立法機關 / 立法机关 (zh) (lìfǎ jīguān)
- Czech: zákonodárný sbor m, legislatura f, zákonodárná moc f
- Danish: lovgivende forsamling c
- Dutch: wetgevende macht (nl) f or m
- Finnish: lainsäädäntöelin
- French: corps législatif m, assemblée législative (fr) f
- Georgian: საკანონმდებლო (saḳanonmdeblo), საკანონმდებლო ორგანო (saḳanonmdeblo organo), საკანონმდებლო ხელისუფლება (saḳanonmdeblo xelisupleba), ლეგისლატურა (legislaṭura)
- German: Legislative (de) f, gesetzgebende Gewalt f
- Greek: νομοθετικό σώμα n (nomothetikó sóma)
- Hausa: majalisa (ha)
- Hungarian: törvényhozó testület, törvényhozás (hu)
- Indonesian: legislatur
- Japanese: 立法府 (ja) (りっぽうふ, rippofu)
- Khmer: នីតិបញ្ញត្តិ (niitebaññat)
- Korean: 입법부(立法府) (ipbeopbu), 립법부(立法府) (ripbeopbu) (North Korea)
- Maori: rūnanga hanga ture
- Navajo: naatʼááh bá hooghan
- Norman: législatuthe f
- Persian: مجلس (fa), پارلمان (fa)
- Polish: legislatura (pl) f, legislatywa (pl) f, władza ustawodawcza f
- Portuguese: legislatura (pt) f
- Romanian: corp legislativ (ro) n
- Russian: законода́тельная власть f (zakonodátelʹnaja vlastʹ), законода́тельный о́рган m (zakonodátelʹnyj órgan), заксобра́ние (ru) n (zaksobránije)
- Slovak: zákonodarná moc f, legislatúra f
- Spanish: legislatura (es) f
- Swedish: lagstiftande församling c, legislatur c
- Tagalog: batasan
- Tamil: சட்டமன்றம் (ta) (caṭṭamaṉṟam)
- Thai: สภานิติบัญญัติ (sà-paa-ní-dtì-ban-yàt)
- Ukrainian: законода́вча вла́да (uk) f (zakonodávča vláda)
- Vietnamese: cơ quan lập pháp
- Welsh: deddfwrfa f, deddfwrfeydd f pl
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References
Italian
Noun
legislature f
- plural of legislatura