ballot
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Noun (2)ballots
- a document listing the alternatives that is used in votingType of document, written documentKinds absentee ballot
- a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative“there were only 17 votes in favor of the motion”“they allowed just one vote per person”Synonyms: votevotingballotingType of choice, selectionKinds veto, upvote, secret ballot, multiple voting, straight ticket, casting vote, write-in, block vote, split ticket
Verb (1)ballots, balloted, balloting
- vote by ballot“The voters were balloting in this state”More general vote
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Translations
Noun process of voting
- Spanish
- votación
- French
- scrutin
- German
- Abstimmung
- Italian
- scrutinio
- Turkish
- oylama
- Russian
- голосова́ние golosovánije
- Chinese
- 投票 tóupiào
- Japanese
- 投票 tōhyō
- Dutch
- stembiljet
- Polish
- głosowanie
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- Swedish
- omröstning
- Greek
- ψηφοφορία psifoforía
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 投票 tóupiào
- Catalan
- papereta de vot
- Czech
- hlasování
- Danish
- afstemning
- Esperanto
- baloto
- Finnish
- äänestys
- Icelandic
- kjörseðill
- Norwegian
- avstemning
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: F. ballotte, fr. It. ballotta. See Ball round body.
1. Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any printed or written ticket used in voting.
2. The act of secret voting, whether by balls, written or printed ballots or tickets, or by use of a voting machine; the system of voting secretly.
The insufficiency of the ballot.— Charles Dickens
3. The whole number of votes cast at an election, or in a given territory or electoral district.
4. the official list of candidates competing in an election. There are no women on the ballot.
Ballot box, (a) a box for receiving ballots. (b) the act, process or system of voting secretly; same as ballot{2}. “The question will be resolved by the ballot box.”
Origin: F. ballotter to toss, to ballot, or It. ballottare. See Ballot, noun
To vote or decide by ballot; as, to ballot for a candidate.
To vote for or in opposition to.
None of the competitors arriving to a sufficient number of balls, they fell to ballot some others.— Sir Henry Wotton
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: +PJC