WordNet: authority

(usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others; "the authorities have issued a curfew"

• domain: usage plural, plural form

• hypernym individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul

• hyponym abrogator

• hyponym allocator, distributor

• hyponym approver

• hyponym authority figure

• hyponym authoriser, authorizer

• hyponym mandator

• hyponym pacha, pasha

• hyponym civil authority, civil officer

• hyponym rebuker, reproacher, reprover, upbraider

• hyponym withdrawer

authority

• (suomi) viranomainen (synonyymi)