'Election' definitions:
Definition of 'election'
(from WordNet)
noun
A vote to select the winner of a position or political office; "the results of the election will be announced tonight"
noun
The act of selecting someone or something; the exercise of deliberate choice; "her election of medicine as a profession"
noun
The status or fact of being elected; "they celebrated his election"
noun
The predestination of some individuals as objects of divine mercy (especially as conceived by Calvinists)
Definition of 'Election'
From: GCIDE
- Election \E*lec"tion\, n. [F. ['e]lection, L. electio, fr. eligere to choose out. See Elect, a.]
- 1. The act of choosing; choice; selection. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. [1913 Webster]
- Corruption in elections is the great enemy of freedom. --J. Adams. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Power of choosing; free will; liberty to choose or act. "By his own election led to ill." --Daniel. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Discriminating choice; discernment. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- To use men with much difference and election is good. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Theol.) Divine choice; predestination of individuals as objects of mercy and salvation; -- one of the "five points" of Calvinism. [1913 Webster]
- There is a remnant according to the election of grace. --Rom. xi. 5. [1913 Webster]
- 6. (Law) The choice, made by a party, of two alternatives, by taking one of which, the chooser is excluded from the other. [1913 Webster]
- 7. Those who are elected. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- The election hath obtained it. --Rom. xi. 7. [1913 Webster]
- To contest an election. See under Contest.
- To make one's election, to choose. [1913 Webster]
- He has made his election to walk, in the main, in the old paths. --Fitzed. Hall. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'election'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accession,
- alternative,
- alternativity,
- anointing,
- anointment,
- apostolic orders,
- appointment,
- arrogation,
- assignment,
- assumption,
- authorization,
- by-election,
- calling,
- Calvinism,
- canonization,
- caucus,
- choice,
- choosing,
- closed primary,
- co-optation,
- co-option,
- conferment,
- congressional election,
- consecration,
- contested election,
- coronation,
- decision,
- delegation,
- deputation,
- designation,
- determinism,
- direct primary,
- druthers,
- electing,
- empowerment,
- fatalism,
- first choice,
- free choice,
- free will,
- general election,
- holy orders,
- induction,
- installation,
- institution,
- investiture,
- legitimate succession,
- major orders,
- mandatory primary,
- minor orders,
- nomination,
- nonpartisan primary,
- open primary,
- option,
- optional primary,
- ordainment,
- orders,
- ordination,
- partisan election,
- pick,
- plebiscite,
- political election,
- poll,
- predestinarianism,
- predeterminism,
- preference,
- preference primary,
- preferment,
- preoption,
- presentation,
- presidential election,
- presidential preference primary,
- presidential primary,
- primary,
- primary election,
- reading in,
- referendum,
- runoff,
- runoff election,
- runoff primary,
- seizure,
- selection,
- succession,
- taking over,
- the pick,
- usurpation,
- volition,
- vote,
- voting,
- will
Words containing 'Election'
- Elect,
- Electant,
- Elected,
- Electer,
- Electic,
- Electing,
- Elective,
- Electively,
- By-election,
- Elective affinity,
- Elective attraction,
- Elective franchise,
- To contest an election,
- elect lady,
- elected official,
- election commission,
- election day,
- election district,
- election fraud,
- election of grace,
- elective course,
- elective surgery,
- general election,
- primary election,
- right of election,
- runoff election,
- writ of election,
- Self-elective,
- To make one's election,
- bye-election,
- non-elective,
- Vitre-o-electic