president
see also: President
Pronunciation
President
Noun
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see also: President
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈpɹɛzɨdənt/
- The head of state of a republic.
- 2007, Benjamin Camins, Hillary Is the Best Choice, Page 144
- […] to change the pattern of the last 220 years of only voting for a white male president, and elect a woman president […]
- The vast majority of presidents have been male.
- 2007, Benjamin Camins, Hillary Is the Best Choice, Page 144
- In presidential republics, the head of government and head of state.
- Primary leader of a corporation. Not to be confused with CEO, which is a related but separate position that is sometimes held by a different person.
- A person presiding over a meeting, chair, presiding officer, presider.
- Obsolete form of precedent#English|precedent.
- (American head of state) POTUS
- (head of a college or university) provost (UK)
- (head of various specific bodies) prepositus
- (informal, jocular) prexy, prez
- French: président, présidente
- German: Präsident, Präsidentin
- Italian: presidente, presidentessa, presidente della repubblica, presidentessa della repubblica, capo dello stato
- Portuguese: presidente, presidenta
- Russian: президе́нт
- Spanish: presidente, presidenta
- French: président, présidente
- Portuguese: presidente
- Russian: президе́нт
- Spanish: presidente, presidente director
- German: Vorsitzender, Vorsitzende, Vorsitzer, Vorsitzerin
- Russian: председа́тель
president (not comparable)
- (archaic) Occupying the first rank or chief place; having the highest authority; presiding.
- 1671, John Milton, “Book the First”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: Printed by J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398 ↗:
- His angels president / In every province.
President
Noun
president (plural presidents)
- An honorific for the head of state of a republic; see president (definition 1).
- the President of the United States
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