nomination
NounUS[nom-uh-ney-shuhn]/ˌnɑməˈneɪʃən/4 syllables
Open English WordNet
Noun (3)nominations
- the act of officially naming a candidate“the Republican nomination for Governor”Type of appointment, assignment
- the condition of having been proposed as a suitable candidate for appointment or election“there was keen competition for the nomination”“his nomination was hotly protested”Type of condition, status
- an address (usually at a political convention) proposing the name of a candidate to run for election“the nomination was brief and to the point”Synonyms: nominating speechnominating addressType of oratory
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Translations
Noun an act or instance of nominating
- Spanish
- nominación
- French
- nomination
- German
- Nominierung
- Italian
- nomina
- Portuguese
- indicação
- Turkish
- adaylık
- Russian
- номина́ция nominácija
- Arabic
- تَرْشِيح taršīḥ
- Japanese
- ノミネート nominēto
- Dutch
- nominatie
11 more languages
- Polish
- nominacja
- Swedish
- nominering
- Greek
- αναγόρευση anagórefsi
- Korean
- 공천 gongcheon
- Hungarian
- jelölés
- Portuguese (PT)
- nomeação
- Catalan
- nominació
- Czech
- nominace
- Finnish
- ehdollepano
- Georgian
- ნომინაცია nominacia
- Norwegian
- nominasjon
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Nom′i·na′tion noun
Origin: L. nominatio: cf. F. nomination.
1. The act of naming or nominating; designation of a person as a candidate for office; the power of nominating; the state of being nominated; as, to win the nomination.
The nomination of persons to places being... a flower of his crown, he would reserve to himself.— Edward Hyde, first earl of Clarendon
2. The denomination, or name. obsolete Bp. John Pearson
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54