senate

Etymology
From, from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) In some bicameral legislative systems, the upper house or chamber.
 * 2) 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.
 * 3) In Germany, the executive branch of government in the city states of Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg; the governments of cities that were part of the Hanseatic League; and the bench in a higher appellate court.
 * 1) In Germany, the executive branch of government in the city states of Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg; the governments of cities that were part of the Hanseatic League; and the bench in a higher appellate court.

Derived terms

 * senate-house

Translations

 * Afrikaans: senaat
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: مَجْلِس الشُّيُوخ
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: senat
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: сена́т
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: senato
 * Estonian: senat
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: სენატი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Haitian Creole: sena
 * Hebrew: סֶנָאט
 * Hindi: सीनेट
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: öldungadeild
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: senato
 * Irish: seanad
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: сенат
 * Khmer: ព្រឹទ្ធសភា
 * Korean: 상원(上院),
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ວຸດທິສະພາ
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: senāts
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: сенат
 * Malay: senat
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠰᠧᠨᠠᠲ᠋
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: сѐна̄т
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: senát
 * Slovene:
 * Sotho: senate
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: seneti
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: сенат
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: senat
 * Ukrainian: сена́т
 * Urdu: سینیٹ
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: סענאַט


 * Latin:
 * Maori: kāhui hanga ture