Word Meaning

Meaning of senates

- An assembly or council having the highest deliberative and legislative functions.
- A body of elders appointed or elected from among the nobles of the nation, and having supreme legislative authority.
- The upper and less numerous branch of a legislature in various countries, as in France, in the United States, in most of the separate States of the United States, and in some Swiss cantons.
- In general, a legislative body; a state council; the legislative department of government.
- The governing body of the Universities of Cambridge and London.
- In some American colleges, a council of elected students, presided over by the president of the college, to which are referred cases of discipline and matters of general concern affecting the students.

Crossword clue for senates

- A tense reshuffle in the Upper House
- Ancient Rome’s legislative body
- Council seat holding nation’s leader accountable at last
- Governing body
- Legislative body
- Legislative chamber
- Parliament
- Parliamentary body
- Ruling body of a university called
- See Nat inside higher chamber
- The governing body of a university
- Upper house
- Upper house of parliament
- Governing bodies
- Legislative chambers
- Parliamentary bodies