Senate

Noun

 * 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 and male.
 * 3) * 1818, Percy Bysshe Shelley,"The Revolt of Islam", canto 11, stanza 13, lines 4338-9,
 * Before the Tyrant's throne
 * All night his aged Senate sate.

Related terms

 * senator
 * senatorial
 * senatus


 * senescent
 * senile
 * senior

Adjectives for Senate
venerable; complaisant; servile; reverend; venal; strong; popular.

Thesaurus
Austria, Barbados, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Fiji, France, House of Lords, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Laos, Liberia, Malagasy Republic, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Paraguay, Philippines, Portugal, Rhodesia, South Africa, Swaziland, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, US, Venezuela, West Germany

Etymology
< senat: <  senat: <  senatus: < senex:.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: senat
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: senato
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek: γερουσία
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew: כנסט
 * Icelandic: öldungadeild


 * Irish: seanad
 * Italian:
 * Latin:
 * Mandarin: 參議院
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: (senâ)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Sotho:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Welsh: senedd

Anagrams

 * sateen