senate

Other forms of senate

plural

senates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about senate

What does senate mean?

senate means "assembly possessing high legislative powers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in senate?

senate has 2 syllables: sen-ate. The stress falls on "sen". In IPA it is /ˈsɛnət/.

What is another word for senate?

Close synonyms include United States Senate, U.S. Senate, US Senate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is senate a common word?

senate is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.