Noun: senate
| Singular | senate |
| Plural | senates |
Sample Sentences
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Before the Tyrant's throne
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All night his aged Senate sate. [1818, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Revolt of Islam, canto 11, stanza 13, lines 4338-9:]
Nouns inflected like senate
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English senat, from Old French senat, from Latin senātus (“council of elders; a senate”), from senex (“old”). See: Middle English Nouns '
senat', Latin Nouns '
senātus'.