legislature

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Etymology

1676, from stem of legislator + -ure, cognate with (French): législature

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Noun

legislature (plural legislatures)

1. A governmental body with the power to make, amend and repeal laws.
2. (Canada) A legislative building.

Translations

governmental body

Chinese: Mandarin: 立法機關 (zh), 立法机关 (zh) (lìfǎ jīguān) Czech: zákonodárný sbor (cs) m., legislativa (cs) f. Dutch: wetgevende macht f. and m. Finnish: lainsäädäntöelin (fi) French: corps législatif (fr) m.

German: Legislative (de) f., gesetzgebende Gewalt (de) f. Japanese: 立法府 (ja) (りっぽうふ, rippofu) Khmer: នីតិបញ្ញត្តិ (km) (ni teh panh nhat) Romanian: corp legislativ (ro) n. Russian: законодательная власть (ru) (zakonodátel’naja vlast’) f., законодательный орган (ru) (zakonodátel’nyj órgan) m. Ukrainian: законодавча влада (uk) (zakonodávča vláda) f.

References

• “legislature” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.

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Italian

Noun

legislature f.

1. Plural form of legislatura.