senates
- 1Plural of senate.
The two regional senates met jointly to debate the treaty.
Several ancient city-states maintained their own senates for centuries.
Note
An ordinary -s plural, but the singular behind it covers more ground than many readers expect. Senates can be the upper chambers of several legislatures, the governing councils of universities, or the city governments of Berlin, Bremen and Hamburg, so the surrounding words must make clear which kind is meant. The Roman Senate, by contrast, names one particular council, and talk of it stays in the singular.
senates is a form of senate
senate, noun: The upper house or chamber in some bicameral legislative systems, such as the United States Congress. Full entry
- Forms
- senatesenates plural
- Spelling
- senate → senates: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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