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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian balota (obsolete), ballotta (“small ball, especially one used to register a vote”), from balla (“bale, bundle”) + -otta (“suffix forming diminutive nouns”); or from Middle French balote (obsolete), ballotte (“small ball used to register a vote”) (also compare Middle French balotiage, French ballottage (“second ballot, runoff”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?bæl?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?bæl?t/
• Hyphenation: bal?lot
• Rhymes: -æl?t

Noun

ballot (plural ballots)

1. Originally, a small ball placed in a container to cast a vote; now, by extension, a piece of paper or card used for this purpose, or some other means used to signify a vote.
2. The process of voting, especially in secret; a round of voting.
   • July 1836, A. B. (initials of author), London and Westminster Review Article XI, Bribery and Intimidation at Elections

     the insufficiency of the ballot

3. The total of all the votes cast in an election.
4. (chiefly US) A list of candidates running for office; a ticket.

Synonyms

• (paper or card used to cast a vote): ballot paper, voting slip

Derived terms

• absentee ballot
• ballot box
• butterfly ballot
• postal ballot

Translations

Verb

ballot (third-person singular simple present ballots, present participle balloting, simple past and past participle balloted)

1. To vote or decide by ballot.

2. To draw lots.

Translations

See also

• blackballing (also derived from the old practice of using balls to vote)

Further reading

• ballot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

balle +? -ot

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -o

Noun

ballot m (plural ballots)

1. bundle, package
2. (informal, derogatory) fool, nitwit

Derived terms

• C'est ballot

Further reading

• “ballot” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?palloh(t)/

Verb

ballot

1. first-person plural imperative of ballat