ordinance

Meaning

  1. (US) A local law, passed by e.g. a city.
  2. (England) An edict or decree, authoritative order.
  3. (Commonwealth, UK) An edict or decree, authoritative order.
  4. (Hong-Kong) An edict or decree, authoritative order.
  5. (India, Pakistan) An edict or decree, authoritative order.
  6. A religious practice or ritual prescribed by a church.
  7. (alt-of, alternative, proscribed) Alternative form of ordnance (“military equipment, especially artillery”).

Synonyms

regulation
C2
law
A2
decree
C2
order
A1
edict
25k
direction
B1
rule
B1
injunction
C2
proclamation
20k
custom
C1
institution
C1
command
B1
prohibition
C2
prescription
C1
regulations
C1
mandate
C2
rules
A2
sacrament
22k
mores
47k
enactment
fiat
C2
statute
C2
arms
A2
ordination
act
A2
writ
C2
interdict
interdiction
laws
B2
norm
C1
orders
A2
ordinances
ordnance
25k
organ
C1
practice
B1
precept
principle
C1
recipe
C1
resolution
C1
resolving
34k
rite
C2
ritual
C1
set up
specification
specs
C2
statue
B2
summons
C2
ultimatum
C2
usage
22k
weapon
B1
Translations

ordonnance
ordinanza
Verordnung
ordenanza

διάταξη

Anordnung
décret
Verfügung

θεσμός

disposition
arme
rito

απόφαση

Waffe
Frequency

C2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈɔːdɪnəns/
Etymology

Inherited from Middle English
ordinaunce
In summary

From Middle English ordinaunce (ca. 1300), from Old French ordenance (“decree, command”) (modern French ordonnance), from Medieval Latin ordinantia, from ordinans, the present participle of ordino (“put in order”) (whence ordain). Doublet of ordonnance.

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