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Senate

proper nouncommon in dialogue

Any of several legislative bodies. (In countries which have multiple legislative bodies, the Senate is often the more senior.)

proper noun

  1. 1

    Any of several legislative bodies. (In countries which have multiple legislative bodies, the Senate is often the more senior.)

  2. 2

    historicalThe council that governed the ancient Roman Republic.

  3. 3

    The Senate of Canada; the upper house of the Canadian parliament; "the Senate".

  4. 4

    The United States Senate.

  5. 5

    The upper legislative body of many of the states of the United States.

  6. 6

    The upper house of the Philippine Congress.

Forms

plural
Senates
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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