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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
senator
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
democratic
▪ Bentsen, 71, chair of the Senate finance committee, had served as a Democratic senator for Texas since 1970.
▪ The Post reported that Gore had personally solicited donors by telephone, leading two Democratic senators to criticize him.
▪ This, coupled with the retirement of moderate Democratic senators, including Sens.
republican
▪ This effort to head off support for the more costly Democratic bill failed to prevent 13 Republican senators breaking ranks.
▪ The former Republican senator from Maine brings priorities that spell hope for companies worried about further cuts to military spending.
▪ The challengers include two congressmen and a heterodox former Republican senator who stirs strong emotions on both sides of the political fence.
▪ The Republican senator established the task force to help build consensus and draft legislation on issues facing rural areas of the state.
▪ To provide additional cover, they resolved to have this new language introduced by a Republican senator.
▪ Now the Republican senator may be about to carve the biggest notch of all into his belt.
▪ The strength of the argument for splitting the bill is evident in the reaction of the two Republican senators from Texas.
senior
▪ Fifty-five percent of the registered voters surveyed said Gramm is doing a good job as Texas' senior senator.
■ NOUN
state
▪ His detention has provoked the anger of his supporters, who include the radical state senator Tom Hayden.
▪ Proposition 140 limits Assembly members to three two-year terms and state senators to two four-year terms.
▪ A former state senator cut the ribbon to reopen the place.
▪ Throughout the 1950s, the elder Forbes served as a New Jersey state senator and was twice defeated in campaigns for governor.
▪ L., or Abraham L., when he was a young criminal lawyer and a state senator.
▪ Apparently, Brenda considers one election won by her husband a bigger mandate than the four won by the state senator.
■ VERB
visit
▪ We had seen the little underground train which congressmen rode and we had visited one of our senators in his office.
▪ A visiting senator made the predictable comparison with Ronald Reagan.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The debate was opened by Senator Robinson.
▪ The Democratic Senator from New York held a press conference yesterday.
▪ The President met with a group of senators and congressmen to discuss energy policy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Although senators insisted that they want to work with a spirit of cooperation, signs of strain are evident.
▪ Congressional elections are by universal and compulsory adult suffrage with one-third of the senators elected indirectly.
▪ I know of other children who have written to their senators and state representatives or to editors of local newspapers.
▪ In his early days, as congressman, senator and vice president, he was a vicious political opponent.
▪ The first Kansas senators were Atchison men.
▪ The one-third reduction would save about $ 390 million over six years, the senators estimated.
▪ The reforms were supported by President Carlos Saúl Menem, the other provincial governors and congressional deputies and senators.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Senator

Senator \Sen"a*tor\, n. [OE. senatour, OF. senatour, F. s['e]nateur, fr. L. senator.]

  1. A member of a senate.

    The duke and senators of Venice greet you.
    --Shak.

    Note: In the United States, each State sends two senators for a term of six years to the national Congress.

  2. (O.Eng.Law) A member of the king's council; a king's councilor.
    --Burrill.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
senator

c.1200, "member of an (ancient) senate," from Old French senator (Modern French sénateur), from Latin senator "member of the senate," from senex "old; old man" (see senate). An Old English word for one was folcwita. As "member of a (modern) governing body" from late 14c.; specifically in U.S. use from 1788. Fem. form senatress attested from 1731. The Senators was the name of the professional baseball team in Washington, D.C., from 1891 to 1971.

Wiktionary
senator

n. 1 A member, normally elected, in the house or chamber of a legislature called a senate. The legislatures of the United States and Canada have senators. 2 (context historical English) A position in government held in ancient Rome by experienced, elder officials as advisors or consultants for younger, less experienced functionaries. 3 A member of the king's council.

WordNet
senator

n. a member of a senate

Wikipedia
Senator (consul 436)

Flavius Senator (floruit 436–449) was a politician of the Eastern Roman Empire.

Senator (bishop of Milan)

Senator of Milan or Senator of Settala was Bishop of Milan from 472 to 475. He is honoured as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church and Catholic Church and his feast day is 28 May.

Senator (band)

Senator is an indie pop musical project, conceived by singer-songwriter Adam Greenberg, and based in New York City.

Contributing musicians include Jason Hart ( Rufus Wainwright, Antony and the Johnsons), Michael Jones ( Violent Femmes), Matt Johnson, Oren Bloedow, Bill Dobrow ( The Black Crowes, Sean Lennon), Catherine Popper ( Ryan Adams), and Ken Maiuri ( Pedro the Lion, Mark Mulcahy band, The Mammals). Recorded, engineered and co-produced by Michael Tudor.

Their first, self-titled album was released in 2010. Its song Intermission was an iTunes Song of the Week

Senator (disambiguation)

A senator is a member of a senate, a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a legislature or parliament.

Senator may also refer to:

People:

  • Senator, bishop of Milan in the 5th-century

Automobiles:

  • Opel Senator, also known as Chevrolet Senator or Vauxhall Senator, was a luxury car sold from 1978 until 1993
  • HSV Senator, a Sports sedan car by Holden Special Vehicles produced from 1992

Trees:

  • The Senator, formerly the largest bald cypress in the USA (destroyed by fire, January 2012)

Sports:

  • Ottawa Senators, a National Hockey League franchise based in Ottawa, Ontario

Media:

  • The Senator, a popular 1890 play, and 1915 silent film
Senator (Atlantic City hotel)

The Senator was an oceanside hotel located at 166 S. South Carolina Avenue in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Opened in 1930 as the Hotel Ludy, it became The Senator before 1941. The 16-story structure featured a distinctive rooftop sign "Sky Cabana". In 1967 it became an elder care residence. It was sold in 1997 and demolished in 1998.

The hotel was designed in the Romanesque Revival style and opened in 1930 as the Hotel Ludy. Vintage postcards of the era boasted of a "Solarium - Modern, colorful, with three outdoor Ocean Decks overlooking Boardwalk, Beach and Ocean" and an "atmosphere of quiet cordiality". Sometime after 1935 it was renamed "The Senator." In the summer of 1942 the Senator was leased by the US Army for use as Army Air Force Basic Training Center No. 7.

The Senator would enjoy its heyday in the post World War II years and would become known for its "Sun and Stars" roof that featured tanning by sunlamps by day and converted to dining in the evening. At that time sunlamps were seen as promoting a "healthy looking summer tan". A 1948 image shows a matron in a white medical uniform tending to the Senator's sun bathers. In 1955 the hotel became the home of radio station WLDB 1490AM. "..The studios, located on the eleventh floor of the Senator Hotel, one of the area's largest and best known hotels, overlook the city and the world-famed beach area. From the windows, a million dollar panorama of the "World's Playground" meets the eye... (The call letters WLDB are currently assigned to a station on Menomonee Falls, WI.)

The Senator declined along with the fortunes of Atlantic City and by 1965 the hotel had closed. In 1967 it became an elder care center and operated as The Senator Rest Home, ICS Care Facility Retirement Home, and finally the King David Care Center. In 1997 the facility became bankrupt. The residents were relocated and the former Senator closed for good. It was sold for a casino expansion and demolished in 1998 after some it its terra cotta work was removed by an architectural salvage company.

Usage examples of "senator".

Senator Glancey spearheaded a third group, ably supported by General Funkhauser, civilian leaders of the aircraft industry and many champions of private enterprise.

Senator, by our definition, is anything that prevents you from achieving an objective.

They were inflamed by the likes of Missouri Senator David Achison, a rabid promoter of slavery who took a leave from the Senate to lead the Border Ruffians.

CHAPTER IV I receive the minor orders from the patriarch of Venice--I get acquainted with Senator Malipiero, with Therese Imer, with the niece of the Curate, with Madame Orio, with Nanette and Marton, and with the Cavamacchia--I become a preacher--my adventure with Lucie at Pasean A rendezvous on the third story.

Malipiero was a senator, who was unwilling at seventy years of age to attend any more to State affairs, and enjoyed a happy, sumptuous life in his mansion, surrounded every evening by a well-chosen party of ladies who had all known how to make the best of their younger days, and of gentlemen who were always acquainted with the news of the town.

Cabinet, who were present in their official character, those senators who had remained in Washington since the adjournment of Congress were called in as witnesses.

Greedy Senators, who saw a way to make extra money on the side if a friendly Adjutor could quietly shave a few thousand out of a budget and funnel the funds elsewhere?

In consequence of what he considered a breach of faith on the question, he voted against the passage of the Amnesty Bill, Senator Nye of Nevada being the only one who united with him in the negative vote.

I thought of nothing else, and knowing all the power of the beautiful Therese Imer over our amorous senator, who would be but too happy to please her in anything, I determined to call upon her the next day, and I went straight to her room without being announced.

Several of them, including Senator Lott and Representative Dick Armey, criticized the timing of the attacks, saying I had ordered them in order to delay the House vote on impeachment.

Besides Bob Dole and Newt Gingrich, the Republican team included Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi, and two Texans, Congressman Dick Armey, the House majority leader, and Congressman Tom DeLay, the House majority whip.

Rank dictated the positions of some, like those holding magistracies, priesthoods, augurships, but the bulk of the senators were at liberty to distribute themselves among cronies and settle to partake of viands the bottomless purse of Young Marius had provided.

Ptolemy Auletes shivered in fear, paid huge sums to Roman senators to make sure the move failed.

Pierre Vendramin, an illustrious senator, obtained me the favour of a passage to Constantinople with the Chevalier Venier, who was proceeding to that city in the quality of bailo, but as he would arrive in Corfu a month after me, the chevalier very kindly promised to take me as he called at Corfu.

It came up at odd times, when Dio tried to explain the odd ways in which the Senator behaved toward her, or when she asked questions and was told to be quiet.