SENATOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does senator mean? 

• SENATOR (noun)
  The noun SENATOR has 1 sense:

1. a member of a senate

  Familiarity information: SENATOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SENATOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of a senate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("senator" is a kind of...):

legislator (someone who makes or enacts laws)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "senator"):

state senator (a member of a state senate)

Instance hyponyms:

Clinton; Hilary Clinton; Hilary Rodham Clinton (wife of President Clinton and later a woman member of the United States Senate (1947-))

Fulbright; James William Fulbright; William Fulbright (United States senator who is remembered for his creation of grants that fund exchange programs of teachers and students between the United States and other countries (1905-1995))

Glenn; John Glenn; John Herschel Glenn Jr. (made the first orbital rocket-powered flight by a United States astronaut in 1962; later in United States Senate (1921-))

Derivation:

senatorial (of or relating to senators)

senatorship (the office of senator)

 Context examples 

He likewise directed, that every senator in the great council of a nation, after he had delivered his opinion, and argued in the defence of it, should be obliged to give his vote directly contrary; because if that were done, the result would infallibly terminate in the good of the public.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Which was very gratifying to him until he tried to collect. Something had gone wrong in the County Committee, and, though a rich banker and a state senator were members of it, the money was not forthcoming.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

To keep senators in the interest of the crown, it was proposed that the members should raffle for employment; every man first taking an oath, and giving security, that he would vote for the court, whether he won or not; after which, the losers had, in their turn, the liberty of raffling upon the next vacancy.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

It does not appear, from all you have said, how any one perfection is required toward the procurement of any one station among you; much less, that men are ennobled on account of their virtue; that priests are advanced for their piety or learning; soldiers, for their conduct or valour; judges, for their integrity; senators, for the love of their country; or counsellors for their wisdom.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

This doctor therefore proposed, that upon the meeting of the senate, certain physicians should attend it the three first days of their sitting, and at the close of each day’s debate feel the pulses of every senator; after which, having maturely considered and consulted upon the nature of the several maladies, and the methods of cure, they should on the fourth day return to the senate house, attended by their apothecaries stored with proper medicines; and before the members sat, administer to each of them lenitives, aperitives, abstersives, corrosives, restringents, palliatives, laxatives, cephalalgics, icterics, apophlegmatics, acoustics, as their several cases required; and, according as these medicines should operate, repeat, alter, or omit them, at the next meeting.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

From West Egg came the Poles and the Mulreadys and Cecil Roebuck and Cecil Schoen and Gulick the state senator and Newton Orchid who controlled Films Par Excellence and Eckhaust and Clyde Cohen and Don S. Schwartze (the son) and Arthur McCarty, all connected with the movies in one way or another.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)