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STATE SENATOR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does state senator mean?
• STATE SENATOR (noun)
The noun STATE SENATOR has 1 sense:
1. a member of a state senate
Familiarity information: STATE SENATOR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A member of a state senate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("state senator" is a kind of...):
senator (a member of a senate)
Context examples
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)
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)
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