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Senate sen·ate

Spelling: [sen-it]

IPA: /ˈsɛn ɪt/

Senate is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 111 anagrams from letters in Senate (aeenst).

Definitions for Senate

noun

1. an assembly or council of citizens having the highest deliberative functions in a government, especially a legislative assembly of a state or nation.
2. (initial capital letter) the upper house of the legislature of certain countries, as the United States, France, Italy, Canada, Ireland, Republic of South Africa, Australia, and some Latin American countries.
3. the room or building in which such a group meets.
4. Roman History. the supreme council of state, the membership and functions of which varied at different periods.
5. a governing, advisory, or disciplinary body, as in certain universities.

Origin of Senate

1175-1225; Middle English senat Latin senātus council of elders, equivalent to sen(ex) old + -ātus -ate³

Examples for Senate

At Lanuvium there was a society known as the "senate of Women."

AIDS insanity:  When running for the US senate in 1992, Huckabee called for a quarantine of people who had AIDS.

Mr. Rice made the closing speech on the School Bill, in the senate, on the 24th.

Still, for all of this, South Carolina is now represented in the U.S. senate by Tim Scott, a Republican and an African-American.

The challenges before us will be thrashed out with the House and the senate.

This is going to be the Game of Thrones of U.S. senate races.

It was a senate floor soap opera over none other than a soap-opera producer.

Nothing else can be appealed to in the field, or in the senate.

This Congress will welcome more women than ever before at 19 percent of the House and 20 percent of the senate.

In 1844, he was elected to the State senate from the Franklin district.