senate

See also: Senate

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛnɪt/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛnət/, /ˈsɛnɪt/
(General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛnət/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -ɛnɪt

Noun

senate (plural senates)

In some bicameral legislative systems, the upper house or chamber.
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.
- 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

Descendants

→ Swahili: seneti

Translations

the upper house in some bicameral legislative systems

Afrikaans: senaat
Albanian: senat (sq) m
Arabic: مَجْلِس الشُّيُوخ‎ m (majlis aš-šuyūḵ)
Armenian: սենատ (hy) (senat)
Azerbaijani: senat
Basque: senatu (eu)
Belarusian: сена́т (sjenát)
Bulgarian: сена́т (bg) m (senát)
Burmese: အထက်လွှတ်တော် (my) (a.htakhlwattau), ဆီနိတ် (my) (hcinit)
Catalan: senat (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 參議院／参议院 (zh) (cānyìyuàn)
Czech: senát (cs) m
Danish: senat n
Dutch: senaat (nl) m
Esperanto: senato
Estonian: senat
Finnish: senaatti (fi)
French: sénat (fr) m
Georgian: სენატი (senaṭi)
German: Senat (de) m
Greek: γερουσία (el) f (gerousía)
Haitian Creole: sena
Hebrew: סֶנָאט‎ m (senát)
Hindi: सीनेट f (sīneṭ)
Hungarian: szenátus (hu)
Icelandic: öldungadeild f
Indonesian: senat (id)
Interlingua: senato
Irish: seanad m
Italian: senato (it) m
Japanese: 上院 (ja) (じょういん, jōin), 元老院 (げんろういん, genrōin) (Rome)
Kazakh: сенат (senat)
Khmer: ព្រឹទ្ធសភា (prɨtsaʼphiə)
Korean: 상원(上院) (sang'won), 원로원(元老院) (ko) (wollowon) (Rome)
Kyrgyz: сенат (ky) (senat)
Lao: ວຸດທິສະພາ (wut thi sa phā)
Latin: senātus (la) m
Latvian: senāts m
Lithuanian: senatas (lt) m
Macedonian: сенат m (senat)
Malay: senat
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: сенат (mn) (senat)
Mongolian: ᠰᠧᠨᠠᠲ᠋ (sēnat)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: senat (no) n
Persian: سنا‎ (fa) (senâ)
Polish: senat (pl) m
Portuguese: senado (pt) m
Russian: сена́т (ru) m (senát)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: сѐна̄т m
Roman: sènāt (sh) m
Slovak: senát m
Slovene: senat (sl) m
Sotho: senate
Spanish: senado (es) m
Swahili: seneti
Swedish: senat (sv) c
Tajik: сенат (senat)
Thai: วุฒิสภา (th) (wút-tí-sà-paa)
Turkish: senato (tr)
Turkmen: senat
Ukrainian: сена́т m (senát)
Urdu: سینیٹ‎ f (sīneṭ)
Uzbek: senat (uz)
Vietnamese: thượng nghị viện (vi)
Welsh: senedd (cy)
Yiddish: סענאַט‎ m (senat)

a group of experienced, respected, wise individuals serving as decision makers or advisors

Latin: senātus (la) m
Maori: kāhui hanga ture

References

senate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
“senate”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

Anagrams

Santee, atenes, enates, ensate, sateen, tenase