Senate ¹

Definition: An assembly or council having the highest deliberative and legislative functions.

Senate ²

Definition: A body of elders appointed or elected from among the nobles of the nation, and having supreme legislative authority.

Senate ³

Definition: The upper and less numerous branch of a legislature in various countries, as in France, in the United States, in most of the separate States of the United States, and in some Swiss cantons.

Senate ⁴

Definition: In general, a legislative body; a state council; the legislative department of government.

Senate ⁵

Definition: The governing body of the Universities of Cambridge and London.

Senate ⁶

Definition: In some American colleges, a council of elected students, presided over by the president of the college, to which are referred cases of discipline and matters of general concern affecting the students.

senate ⁷

Definition: assembly possessing high legislative powers

Senate ⁸

Definition: the upper house of the United States Congress