senator

Plural

senators

1. 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.

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

2. 2.A member of the ruler’s council or governing council in general, a leading statesman.

3. 3.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.

4. 4.The title for someone who is elected to be a senator.

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