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senator Definition

sena·tor (senət ər)

noun

a member of a senate

Etymology: ME senatour < OFr senateur < L senator

senator Synonyms

senator

n.

legislator, politician, member of the senate, statesman, elder statesman, Solon*; see also representative 2.

senator Usage Examples

Preposition: about

  • diabetes: Senator about diabetes be sued by would go down.

Converse of object

  • elect: He was elected a senator only four years ago.
  • appoint: However, the appointed senators were due to last for at least 8 years.
  • tell: Charlene has just told the senator what she has done.
  • call: The senator called on the US Senate to force labels to introduce simpler clearer reporting practices.
  • say: Dr. Thomas Noguchi, Los Angeles coroner, said the senator died from damage to the brain caused by a.22 caliber bullet.
  • become: In 1950 he became a senator, representing the state of Connecticut.

Adjective modifier

  • Republican: Senior Republican senators, including a Texan, publicly voiced their unease last week.
  • Democratic: The cynical dealings of Democratic senators expose the real story behind the popularity of campaign finance reform.
  • undecided: Even tho these efforts may not have swayed the undecided senators, it certainly did help to plant seeds of doubt about the Treaty.
  • Swiss: Swiss senator Dick Marty has submitted a report on the claims to a meeting of the human rights committee.
  • junior: The actions of the junior senator have caused alarm and dismay among our allies abroad, and given considerable comfort to our enemies.
  • former: Gary Hart, the former Democratic senator who ran for the presidency on a radical ticket in 1988, has touched on this process.

Modifies a noun

  • bookout: To support the above years of senator bookout says plan will exclude.
  • /caption: TABLE border="1 " CAPTION Cups of coffee consumed by each senator /CAPTION TR TH Name TH Cups TH Type of Coffee TH Sugar?
  • jerry: Model we first senator jerry bookout report issued by.

Noun used with modifier

  • gop: Gop senators are august continue to through the roof.
  • state: In the event california state senator make sure their the country.
  • california: In the event california state senator make sure their the country.

Possessives

  • son: H. N. , xxxiii. i. 18 ), in the sixth by every senator and senator's son ( Liv. xxvi.
senator Quotes

It isn't just dust that is settling in Korea, Senator, it is American blood.

—MacArthur, Douglas

   Time is the101st Senator†the ally of the people who want to do nothing.

—Dodd, ChristopherJ

I am a free man, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.

—Johnson, Lyndon B(aines) also called LBJ