ELECTOR

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• ELECTOR (noun)
  The noun ELECTOR has 2 senses:

1. a citizen who has a legal right to vote

2. any of the German princes who were entitled to vote in the election of new emperor of the Holy Roman Empire

  Familiarity information: ELECTOR used as a noun is rare.

• ELECTOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A citizen who has a legal right to vote

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

elector; voter

Hypernyms ("elector" is a kind of...):

citizen (a native or naturalized member of a state or other political community)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "elector"):

constituent (a member of a constituency; a citizen who is represented in a government by officials for whom he or she votes)

crossover; crossover voter (a voter who is registered as a member of one political party but who votes in the primary of another party)

floater (a voter who votes illegally at different polling places in the same election)

floating voter; swing voter (a voter who has no allegiance to any political party and whose unpredictable decisions can swing the outcome of an election one way or the other)

Holonyms ("elector" is a member of...):

electorate (the body of enfranchised citizens; those qualified to vote)

Derivation:

elect (select by a vote for an office or membership)

electoral (relating to or composed of electors)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of the German princes who were entitled to vote in the election of new emperor of the Holy Roman Empire

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Elector" is a kind of...):

prince (a male member of a royal family other than the sovereign (especially the son of a sovereign))

Instance hyponyms:

Frederick William; Great Elector (the Elector of Brandenburg who rebuilt his domain after its destruction during the Thirty Years' War (1620-1688))

 Context examples 

We had a charming time poking about the ruins, the vaults where the monster tun is, and the beautiful gardens made by the elector long ago for his English wife.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)