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SENATE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Assembly possessing high legislative powers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("senate" is a kind of...):
general assembly; law-makers; legislative assembly; legislative body; legislature (persons who make or amend or repeal laws)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "senate"):
Senate; U.S. Senate; United States Senate; US Senate (the upper house of the United States Congress)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The upper house of the United States Congress
Synonyms:
Senate; U.S. Senate; United States Senate; US Senate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Senate" is a kind of...):
senate (assembly possessing high legislative powers)
Holonyms ("Senate" is a member of...):
Congress; U.S. Congress; United States Congress; US Congress (the legislature of the United States government)
Context examples:
For having strictly examined all the persons of greatest name in the courts of princes, for a hundred years past, I found how the world had been misled by prostitute writers, to ascribe the greatest exploits in war, to cowards; the wisest counsel, to fools; sincerity, to flatterers; Roman virtue, to betrayers of their country; piety, to atheists; chastity, to sodomites; truth, to informers: how many innocent and excellent persons had been condemned to death or banishment by the practising of great ministers upon the corruption of judges, and the malice of factions: how many villains had been exalted to the highest places of trust, power, dignity, and profit: how great a share in the motions and events of courts, councils, and senates might be challenged by bawds, whores, pimps, parasites, and buffoons.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I told him, “that in the kingdom of Tribnia, by the natives called Langdon, where I had sojourned some time in my travels, the bulk of the people consist in a manner wholly of discoverers, witnesses, informers, accusers, prosecutors, evidences, swearers, together with their several subservient and subaltern instruments, all under the colours, the conduct, and the pay of ministers of state, and their deputies. The plots, in that kingdom, are usually the workmanship of those persons who desire to raise their own characters of profound politicians; to restore new vigour to a crazy administration; to stifle or divert general discontents; to fill their coffers with forfeitures; and raise, or sink the opinion of public credit, as either shall best answer their private advantage. It is first agreed and settled among them, what suspected persons shall be accused of a plot; then, effectual care is taken to secure all their letters and papers, and put the owners in chains. These papers are delivered to a set of artists, very dexterous in finding out the mysterious meanings of words, syllables, and letters: for instance, they can discover a close stool, to signify a privy council; a flock of geese, a senate; a lame dog, an invader; the plague, a standing army; a buzzard, a prime minister; the gout, a high priest; a gibbet, a secretary of state; a chamber pot, a committee of grandees; a sieve, a court lady; a broom, a revolution; a mouse-trap, an employment; a bottomless pit, a treasury; a sink, a court; a cap and bells, a favourite; a broken reed, a court of justice; an empty tun, a general; a running sore, the administration.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
