Dictionary Entry
inaugurate
inaugurate is a 10-letter English word with 8 senses as adjective, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Invested with office; inaugurated. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 15 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Invested with office; inaugurated.
- 2transitive verb
To introduce or induct into an office with suitable ceremonies or solemnities; to invest with power or authority in a formal manner; to install; as, to inaugurate a president; to inaugurate a king.
- 3transitive verb
To cause to begin, esp. with formality or solemn ceremony; hence, to set in motion, action, or progress; to initiate; -- used especially of something of dignity or worth or public concern; as, to inaugurate a new era of things, new methods, etc.
- 4transitive verb
To celebrate the completion of, or the first public use of; to dedicate, as a statue.
- 5transitive verb
To begin with good omens.
- 6verb
be a precursor of
"The fall of the Berlin Wall ushered in the post-Cold War period"
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- 7verb
commence officially
- 8verb
open ceremoniously or dedicate formally
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