nominate
To name someone as a candidate for a particular role or position, including that of an office.
Other meanings
To specify in advance which pocket a ball will be potted in; to call; to name.
To designate a peer (or oneself) as corresponding to a (potentially positive or negative) description.
Synonyms
- put up
- put forward
Related words
- disnominate
- nominatee
- nominately
- nominator
- prenominate
- renominate
- nonnominated
- unnominated
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "nōminātus".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “nominate” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.