senate

English Online Dictionary. What means senate‎? What does senate mean?

English

Etymology

From Middle English senat, from Old French senat, from Latin senātus (“council of elders; a senate”), from senex (“old”). Doublet of Senedd.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛnɪt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛnət/, /ˈsɛnɪt/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈsenət/
• Rhymes: -ɛnɪt, -ɛnət

Noun

senate (plural senates)

1. In some bicameral legislative systems, the upper house or chamber.
2. A group of experienced, respected, wise individuals serving as decision makers or advisors in a political system or in institutional governance, as in a university, and traditionally of advanced age.
3. In Germany, the executive branch of government in the city states of Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg; the governments of cities that were part of the Hanseatic League; and the bench in a higher appellate court.

Derived terms

• senate-house

Related terms

Descendants

• → Swahili: seneti

Translations

References

• “senate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “senate”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

Anagrams

• Santee, atenes, enates, ensate, sateen, tenase