senator

• senatour (obsolete)

From Latin senātor, ultimately from senex (“old”), equivalent to senate +‎ -or.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛn.ə.tə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛn.ə.tɚ/

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• Hyphenation: sen‧a‧tor

senator (plural senators)

1. A member, normally elected, in the house or chamber of a legislature called a senate, as, for instance, the legislatures of the United States and Canada.
   • 2003, Olga Gardner Galvin, The Alphabet Challenge, Page 31

     It was disbanded when Derrick was only six, after that grouchy old ultra-Libertarian Senator Timothy de Illy made “welfare hotel for Third-World nations” a household catchphrase.

   • 2007, Joe Biden, Promises to Keep‎^[1], New York: Random House, published 2008, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 78:

     I was a United States senator-elect at age thirty.

2. (dated) A member of any legislative body or parliament, particularly the British Parliament.
3. (historical) A member of the ancient Roman Senate.
4. (historical) A member of a governing council in other states in the ancient world.
5. A member of the ruler’s council or governing council in general, a leading statesman.^[1]
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:

     Both we will raigne as Conſuls of the earth,
     And mightie kings ſhall be our Senators.

6. (obsolete) An important church official.
7. In Germany, a minister of the executive branch of government in the city states of Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg; and a government official of cities that were part of the Hanseatic League.

• congressman, congresswoman
• MP

• senate
• senatress
• senatrix

• “senator”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Senate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Santore, anteros, asteron, atoners, nor'-east, nose art, noseart, one-star, orantes, ornates, roneats, rotanes, santero, seatron, tenoras, treason

From Latin senātor, ultimately from senex (“old”).

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• Hyphenation: se‧na‧tor

senator m (plural senatoren or senators, diminutive senatortje n)

1. (politics) senator

• senaat
• senatoriaal

• → Indonesian: senator

Borrowed from Dutch senator, from Latin senātor, ultimately from senex (“old”).

• IPA^(key): /se.ˈna.tɔr/
• Rhymes: -tɔr
• Hyphenation: se‧na‧tor

senator (plural senator-senator)

1. senator:
   1. (government) a member, normally elected, in the house or chamber of a legislature called a senate, as, for instance, the legislatures of the United States and Canada
   2. (historical) a member of the ancient Roman Senate
   3. (historical) a member of a governing council in other states in the ancient world
   4. a member of the ruler’s council or governing council in general, a leading statesman

• “senator” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

senator f (plural senatores)

1. (politics) senator

From senātus (“senate”) +‎ -tor, originally from senex (“old”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sɛˈnaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [seˈnaː.t̪or]

senātor m (genitive senātōris, feminine senātrīx); third declension

1. (politics) senator (a member of the Roman Senate)

Third-declension noun.

• “senator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “senator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• senator in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

senator m (definite singular senatoren, indefinite plural senatorer, definite plural senatorene)

1. (politics) senator

• senat

• “senator” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

senator m (definite singular senatoren, indefinite plural senatorar, definite plural senatorane)

1. (politics) senator

• senat

• “senator” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Latin senātor.

senator oblique singular, m (oblique plural senators, nominative singular senators, nominative plural senator)

1. senator (in Ancient Rome)

Learned borrowing from Latin senātor.

• IPA^(key): /sɛˈna.tɔr/

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• Rhymes: -atɔr
• Syllabification: se‧na‧tor

senator m pers (female equivalent senatorka, related adjective senatorski)

1. (government, politics) senator (a member in the house or chamber of a legislature called a senate)

   Hypernym: parlamentarzysta

2. (government, historical) senator (a member of an assembly of higher secular and clerical officials in the Kingdom of Poland or the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth)
3. (government) senator (a member of a local parliament in each of the states of the United States of America)
4. (Ancient Rome, government, historical) senator (a member of the Roman Senate)
5. (government) senator (a member of a city council in some cities)
6. (education) senator (a member of a college made up of the rector, vice-rectors, deans, and representatives of academic staff, students, and administrative staff, holding leadership positions at a university)
7. (zoology) older and strong male in a group of baboons

• senator in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• senator in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• senator in PWN's encyclopedia

From French sénateur, Latin senātor.

senator m (plural senatori, feminine equivalent senatoare or senatrice)

1. (politics) senator

• senat

From sènāt.

• IPA^(key): /sěnaːtor/
• Hyphenation: se‧na‧tor

sènātor m anim (Cyrillic spelling сѐна̄тор)

1. (politics) senator

• “senator”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

senator c

1. (politics) senator (a member of a senate)

• noteras, sotaren