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president
English
Alternative forms
- President (honorifically)
- præsident (archaic)
Etymology
From Old French president, from Latin praesid?ns (“presiding over; president, leader”) (accusative: praesidentem). The Latin word is the substantivized present active participle of the verb praeside? (“preside over”). The verb is composed from prae (“before”) and sede? (“sit”). The original meaning of the verb is 'to sit before' in the sense of presiding at a meeting. A secondary meaning of the verb is 'to command, to govern'. So praesid?ns means 'the presiding one on a meeting' or 'governor, commander'.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p??z?d?nt/
- Hyphenation: pre?si?dent
Noun
president (plural presidents, feminine presidentess)
- The head of state of a republic.
- 2007, Benjamin Camins, Hillary Is the Best Choice, Page 144
- […] to change the pattern of the last 220 years of only voting for a white male president, and elect a woman president […]
- 2007, Benjamin Camins, Hillary Is the Best Choice, Page 144
- In presidential republics, the head of government and head of state.
- Primary leader of a corporation. Not to be confused with CEO, which is a related but separate position that is sometimes held by a different person.
- A person presiding over a meeting, chair, presiding officer, presider.
- Obsolete form of precedent.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
Synonyms
- (American head of state): POTUS
- (head of a college or university): provost (UK)
- (head of various specific bodies): prepositus
- (informal, jocular): prexy, prez
Translations
Adjective
president (not comparable)
- (archaic) Occupying the first rank or chief place; having the highest authority; presiding.
References
- president at OneLook Dictionary Search
- president in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Catalan
Noun
president m (plural presidents)
- president
Related terms
- presidència
- presidencial
- presidir
Further reading
- “president” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “president” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “president” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “president” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Czech
Noun
president m
- Alternative spelling of prezident
Dutch
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: pre?si?dent
- Rhymes: -?nt
Noun
president m (plural presidenten, diminutive presidentje n)
- president
Derived terms
- vicepresident
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: presiden
Ladin
Alternative forms
- presidënt
Noun
president m (plural presidenc)
- president
Middle French
Noun
president m (plural presidens)
- president (leader of an organization)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin praesidens
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: pre?si?dent
Noun
president m (definite singular presidenten, indefinite plural presidenter, definite plural presidentene)
- a president
Derived terms
- presidentvalg
References
- “president” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin praesidens
Noun
president m (definite singular presidenten, indefinite plural presidentar, definite plural presidentane)
- a president
References
- “president” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Occitan
Noun
president m (plural presidents)
- president
Spanish
Etymology
Catalan president. Doublet of presidente.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?esi?dent/, [p?e.si?ð??n?t?]
Noun
president m (plural presidents)
- president of Catalonia
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
president c
- a chairman, presiding member of an assembly, e.g. a court of law
- a president, head of state in a republic
Declension
Related terms
References
- president in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
president From the web:
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trump
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t??mp/
- (some accents) IPA(key): [t????mp]
- Rhymes: -?mp
- Homophone: Trump
Etymology 1
Possibly from French triomphe (“triumph”) or Old French triumphe.
Noun
trump (plural trumps)
- (card games) The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.
- Diamonds were declared trump(s).
- (card games) A playing card of that suit.
- He played an even higher trump.
- (figuratively) Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve.
- (colloquial, now rare) An excellent person; a fine fellow, a good egg.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 13
- All hands voted Queequeg a noble trump; the captain begged his pardon.
- 1869, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, pg 19 and 163
- Brooke was a trump to telegraph right off.
- Alfred is a trump, I think you say.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 13
- An old card game, almost identical to whist; the game of ruff.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Decker to this entry?)
- A card of the major arcana of the tarot.
Usage notes
For the top-ranking suit as a whole, American usage favors the singular trump and British usage the plural trumps.
Translations
Verb
trump (third-person singular simple present trumps, present participle trumping, simple past and past participle trumped)
- (transitive, card games) To play on (a card of another suit) with a trump.
- He knew the hand was lost when his ace was trumped.
- (intransitive, card games) To play a trump, or to take a trick with a trump.
- (transitive) To get the better of, or finesse, a competitor.
- 1629, Ben Jonson, The New Inn, Act 1, Scene 3
- to trick or trump mankind
- 1629, Ben Jonson, The New Inn, Act 1, Scene 3
- (transitive, dated) To impose unfairly; to palm off.
- 1699, Charles Leslie, A Short and Easy Method with the Deists
- Authors have been trumped upon us.
- 1699, Charles Leslie, A Short and Easy Method with the Deists
- (transitive) To supersede.
- In this election, it would seem issues of national security trumped economic issues.
- (transitive) To outweigh; be stronger, greater, bigger than or in other way superior to.
Synonyms
- (to play a trump card on another suit): ruff
- (to get the better of a competitor): outsmart
Coordinate terms
- (to play a trump card on another suit): underruff, overruff
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English trumpe, trompe (“trumpet”) from Old French trompe (“horn, trump, trumpet”), from Frankish *trumpa, *trumba (“trumpet”), from a common Germanic word of imitative origin.
Akin to Old High German trumpa, trumba (“horn, trumpet”), Middle Dutch tromme (“drum”), Middle Low German trumme (“drum”). More at trumpet, drum.
Noun
trump (plural trumps)
- (archaic) A trumpet.
- 1611, King James Bible, 1 Corinthians 15:52:
- In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible
- 1798, Joseph Hopkinson, “Hail, Columbia”:
- Sound, sound the trump of fame,
- 1611, King James Bible, 1 Corinthians 15:52:
- (slang, Britain, childish, vulgar) Flatulence.
- The noise made by an elephant through its trunk.
Derived terms
Verb
trump (third-person singular simple present trumps, present participle trumping, simple past and past participle trumped)
- To blow a trumpet.
- (intransitive, slang, Britain, childish, vulgar) To flatulate.
- And without warning me, as he lay there, he suddenly trumped next to me in bed.
Etymology 3
Shortening of Jew's-trump, which may be from French jeu-trump, jeu tromp, jeu trompe (a trump, or toy, to play with).
Noun
trump (plural trumps)
- (dated, music) Synonym of Jew's harp.
Further reading
- Trump in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
trump From the web:
- what trump tweeted today
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