What does legislator mean?
Word: Legislator
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Legislator means an elected member of a body such as a parliament or state assembly, with the power to pass new rules for a country or state.
How do you spell legislator?
Syllables: leg - is - la - tor
Tricky part: Many words for people end in er, but this one ends in or, so legislater is a common slip.
Watch out for: legislater, legislatur
Memory tip: A legislator helps to keep order in the land, and the word closes with the first two letters of order.
Legislator in a sentence
Example 1: The legislator visited our village to hear about the new bridge.
Example 2: A young legislator spoke about clean water during the assembly session.
Example 3: Our class wrote to the local legislator asking for a safer road near the school.
Fun Fact
The word came straight from Latin. In ancient Rome it described someone who put forward a proposal for the people to vote on.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word:
legislator
a) ambassador
b) inspector
c) lawmaker
d) treasurer
Show answer
c) lawmaker. The other three look after foreign links, money and checks, not the rules of the land.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
A legeslator from our district opened the new school library on Saturday.
a) district
b) Saturday
c) library
d) legeslator
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d) legeslator. The vowel after the g is i, as in the word legible.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
rlglotesai
a) legislator
b) translator
c) regulator
d) legislature
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a) legislator. The jumble has no u and no n, and it has two l's.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the incorrectly spelt word:
a) goverment
b) parliament
c) assembly
d) legislator
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a) goverment. Government keeps the n of govern, a letter easily lost in speech.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Whom does a legislator represent?
a) the pupils of a school
b) the voters of an area
c) the staff of a factory
d) the players of a team
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b) the voters of an area
2. What sort of decision would be in a legislator's hands?
a) the colour of local buses
b) the wording of a new bill
c) the marks on a science test
d) the menu of a school canteen
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b) the wording of a new bill
