official
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈfɪʃəl/
rhymes: -ɪʃəl
Forms: form: officials
Etymology: From Middle English official, from Old French official, from Latin officiālis, from Latin officium (“duty, service”), by surface analysis, office + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: Officials in the Firefly administration assure the Sylvanians they don't want war either.
text: In most soccer games, there are three officials: the referee and two linesmen.
text: The company's officials became nabobs as it took on more and more power after Plassey.
text: ...officials with their prehensile bottoms...
ref: 1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. III:
text: If the takeover is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets […] Antitrust officials will need to consider Comcast’s status as a monopsony (a buyer with disproportionate power), when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry.
ref: 2014 March 15, “Turn it off”, in The Economist, volume 410, number 8878:
glosses: An office holder, a person holding an official position in government, sports, or other organization.
Synonyms: word: official
Hypernyms: word: person
Hyponyms: word: Excellency
word: Lord
word: Nirgunty
word: Regent
word: Remembrancer
word: Surgeon General
word: Verderer
word: abbreviator
word: aedile
word: agha
word: amban
word: ambassador
word: apostle
word: archbishop
word: archdeacon
word: attache
word: auditor
word: augur
word: babu
word: beadle
word: bishop
word: bureaucrat
word: burgomaster
word: cardinal
word: censor
word: chaplain
word: city father
word: cocket writer
word: commissar
word: commissioner
word: consul
word: coroner
word: cyberczar
word: czarocrat
word: dean
word: debite
word: diocesan
word: diplomat
word: district attorney
word: ecclesiarch
word: echage
word: educrat
word: elector
word: executioner
word: fed
word: federal
word: fire marshal
word: fiscal
word: foreign minister
word: fourth official
word: functionary
word: gauleiter
word: goal umpire
word: gonfalonier
word: governor
word: governor general
word: governor-general
word: grasseater
word: harbormaster
word: harbourmaster
word: herald
word: inquisitor
word: inspector general
word: interrex
word: jefe político
word: jobster
word: judge
word: jurat
word: kimarite-gakari
word: lame duck
word: logothete
word: mayor
word: mayoress
word: mehmandar
word: metropolitan
word: minister
word: mirza
word: moneyer
word: muqaddam
word: ombudsman
word: palatine
word: pastophorus
word: patwari
word: paymaster
word: pope
word: postulator
word: prefect
word: prelate
word: president
word: primate
word: prime minister
word: proctor
word: prytanis
word: praetor
word: prætor
word: public officer
word: quaestor
word: reeve
word: regarder
word: returning officer
word: reve
word: revisor
word: senator
word: sexton
word: sheriff
word: silentiary
word: subdean
word: suffragan
word: syndic
word: tenderpreneur
word: treasurer
word: tribune
word: truant officer
word: tsar
word: vakil
word: vicepresident
word: vizier
word: warden
word: yeoman
Derived terms: fourth official
officialdom
officialese
officialhood
officialship
officialty
subofficial
television match official
underofficial
video official
Related terms: word: dignitary