election

election is a 8-letter English word with 11 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of choosing; choice; selection. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 11 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. The act of choosing; choice; selection.
2. adjective. The act of choosing a person to fill an office, or to membership in a society, as by ballot, uplifted hands, or viva voce; as, the election of a president or a mayor.
3. adjective. Power of choosing; free will; liberty to choose or act.
4. adjective. Discriminating choice; discernment.
5. adjective. Divine choice; predestination of individuals as objects of mercy and salvation; -- one of the "five points" of Calvinism.
6. adjective. The choice, made by a party, of two alternatives, by taking one of which, the chooser is excluded from the other.
7. adjective. Those who are elected.
8. noun. the act of selecting someone or something; the exercise of deliberate choice

   "her election of medicine as a profession"

9. noun. a vote to select the winner of a position or political office

   "the results of the election will be announced tonight"

10. noun. the predestination of some individuals as objects of divine mercy (especially as conceived by Calvinists)
11. noun. the status or fact of being elected

    "they celebrated his election"

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in election:

coteline

Common word forms

elections

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