Thesaurus:legislature
THESAURUS | legislature |
English
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
- 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 3.0, Princeton University, 2006.
- Wikidata:Q11204: legislature