Nomination Definition

nŏmə-nāshən
nominations
noun
nominations
The act or an instance of appointing a person to office.
American Heritage
The act or an instance of submitting a name for candidacy or appointment.
American Heritage
The act of nominating or the fact of being nominated.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Nomination

Noun

Singular:
nomination
Plural:
nominations

Origin of Nomination

  • From Latin nominationem (nominative of nominatio, from verb nominare)

    From Wiktionary

Nomination Sentence Examples

  • His services were acknowledged by a nomination as C.B.

  • Nomination is by the king for life.

  • On the duke of Buckingham's nomination, Wesley was for six years a pupil at Charterhouse.

  • The assizes may speak of patriarch and king as conjoint seigneurs in Jerusalem; but as a matter of fact the king could secure the nomination of his own patriarch, and after Dagobert the patriarchs are, with the temporary exception of Stephen in 1128, the confidants and supporters of the kings.

  • He did not derive much profit from this new favour, as he died on the 29th of June following, without his nomination having been sanctioned by the pope.

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Words Starting With

NNONOM

Words Ending With

NONION

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