Ständerat

== German == === Alternative forms === Ständerath (obsolete) === Etymology === From Stand (“state; estate; canton”) +‎ -e- +‎ Rat (“council; councilor”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈʃtɛndəˌʀaːt] Hyphenation: Stän‧de‧rat === Noun === Ständerat m (strong, genitive Ständerates or Ständerats, plural Ständeräte) (politics, Switzerland) Council of States (the upper house of the Federal Assembly in Switzerland) Synonyms: kleine Kammer, (occasionally) Oberhaus Coordinate terms: grosse Kammer, Nationalrat, (occasionally) Unterhaus (politics, Switzerland) a member of the Council of States Synonym: Ständeratsmitglied ==== Declension ==== ==== Holonyms ==== Bundesversammlung (“Federal Assembly”) ==== Derived terms ==== Ständerätin ==== Related terms ==== Ständeratssitz, Ständeratswahl Bundesrat, Stadtrat, Gemeinderat === Further reading === “Ständerat”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) “Ständerat” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961. “Ständerat” in Duden online