legislator

/ˈlɛd͡ʒɪˌsleɪtə/

legislator means someone who creates or enacts laws.; especially a member of a legislative body.

legislator is pronounced /ˈlɛd͡ʒɪˌsleɪtə/.

Etymology

From Latin lēgislātor.

noun

Someone who creates or enacts laws.; especially a member of a legislative body.“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.”
Someone who creates or enacts laws.; especially not any individual member of a legislative body but the abstracted author of a statute or statutes relevant for the principles of interpretation.