Dictionary Entry
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
- 1adjective
The act of choosing; choice; selection.
- 2adjective
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.
- 3adjective
Power of choosing; free will; liberty to choose or act.
- 4adjective
Discriminating choice; discernment.
- 5adjective
Divine choice; predestination of individuals as objects of mercy and salvation; -- one of the "five points" of Calvinism.
- 6adjective
The choice, made by a party, of two alternatives, by taking one of which, the chooser is excluded from the other.
- 7adjective
Those who are elected.
- 8noun
the act of selecting someone or something; the exercise of deliberate choice
"her election of medicine as a profession"
- 9noun
a vote to select the winner of a position or political office
"the results of the election will be announced tonight"
- 10noun
the predestination of some individuals as objects of divine mercy (especially as conceived by Calvinists)
- 11noun
the status or fact of being elected
"they celebrated his election"
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