president
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
Etymology: From Old French president, from Latin praesidēns (“presiding over; president, leader”) (accusative: praesidentem). The Latin word is the substantivized present active participle of the verb praesideō (“preside over”). The verb is composed from prae (“before”) and sedeō (“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 praesidēns means 'the presiding one on a meeting' or 'governor, commander'.
Inflected forms:
form: presidents
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pres.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: President
pos: noun
tags: alternative
honorific
form: Pres.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
honorific
form: praesident
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: præsident
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: præs.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: presidents
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: presidenting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: presidented
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: presidented
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The head of state of a republic, sometimes also the head of government as well, particularly (US politics) the head of the executive branch of the federal government of the United States of America.
pos: noun
examples: The vast majority of presidents have been male.
Well, nobody else can make a decision but me because I was the President and the final decision comes to the President, you know. I used to have a sign on my desk that said, "The Buck Stops Here." The buck stops at the president's desk when he's president of the United States, and he either makes the decisions or he lets them go by default, and you can't afford to do that when you're president.
[…] to change the pattern of the last 220 years of only voting for a white male president, and elect a woman president […]
The call, which is the first known conversation between the presidents since Trump assumed office last month, came as as^([sic]) Trump makes clear to his advisers he wants to bring the Ukraine conflict to a swift end. […] The last US president to visit Russia was Barack Obama in 2013, when he attended a G20 summit.
gloss: A person presiding over a corporation, usually an executive overseeing daily operations under a chief executive officer but sometimes a separate position held by a CEO.
pos: noun
gloss: A person presiding over a meeting.
pos: noun
examples: The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted;
The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President,[…]
gloss: A person presiding over a dinner or similar informal conversation.
pos: noun
examples: At another dinner, the president, on the removal of the cloth, rose and said... We will conduct weself in sich a manner, dat massa will neber be sorry for what him do dis night.
gloss: To act as president; to do presidential duties.
pos: verb
examples: Although in other ways you couldn’t imagine two more dissimilar men, [Scott Wiener's] ferociously active spirit resembles the Bolshevik antsiness of Donald Trump. The current president is attractive to some voters who might not agree with his values, or his language, or even his policies, but who like that the president is, well, presidenting. Last year, Trump bulldozed the East Wing of the White House, one of the most recognizable historic sites in the United States. [In contrast,] In Democratic cities, people demand 38 meetings and three dozen environmental assessments before tearing down a crack den to build a nursery for sad orphans.
Synonyms: prex
prexy
prez
provost
prepositus
Related words: preside
presidence
presidency
presidente
Presidente Aguirre Cerda
Presidente Hayes
presidentiable
Derived words: copresident
dead president
ex-president
Lady Presidentress
Madam President
Madame President
minister-president
Mister President
Mr. President
Mrs. President
Ms. President
municipal president
President Carlos P. Garcia
president-elect
presidentess
President Garcia
presidenthood
presidential
presidentiary
presidentless
President Musk
president pro tempore
president pro tem
presidentress
presidentrix
President Roxas
President's Daily Briefing
Presidents' Day
presidentship
president's professor
vice president
vice-president
who died and made you president
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