UNITED STATES SENATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does United States Senate mean? 

• UNITED STATES SENATE (noun)
  The noun UNITED STATES SENATE has 1 sense:

1. the upper house of the United States Congress

  Familiarity information: UNITED STATES SENATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNITED STATES SENATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The upper house of the United States Congress

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Senate; U.S. Senate; United States Senate; US Senate

Hypernyms ("United States Senate" is a kind of...):

senate (assembly possessing high legislative powers)

Holonyms ("United States Senate" is a member of...):

Congress; U.S. Congress; United States Congress; US Congress (the legislature of the United States government)

 Context examples 

He'll make the Governor's Chair before he dies, and, who knows? maybe the United States Senate.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He refused the United States Senate several times, and father says he could become a justice of the Supreme Court any time a vacancy occurs, if he wants to.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)