legislator

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Someone who creates or enacts laws.

   Give the children of the poor that portion of education which will enable them to know their own resources; which will cultivate in them an onward-looking hope, and give them rational amusement in their leisure hours: this, and this only, will work out that moral revolution, which is the legislator's noblest purpose.

2. 2
   noun

   someone who makes or enacts laws

Etymology

From Latin lēgislātor.