Dictionary Entry
senate
senate is a 6-letter English word with 8 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An assembly or council having the highest deliberative and legislative functions. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
An assembly or council having the highest deliberative and legislative functions.
- 2noun
A body of elders appointed or elected from among the nobles of the nation, and having supreme legislative authority.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
In general, a legislative body; a state council; the legislative department of government.
- 5noun
The governing body of the Universities of Cambridge and London.
- 6noun
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.
- 7noun
assembly possessing high legislative powers
- 8noun
the upper house of the United States Congress
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