NOMINATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nomination mean? 

• NOMINATION (noun)
  The noun NOMINATION has 3 senses:

1. the act of officially naming a candidate

2. the condition of having been proposed as a suitable candidate for appointment or election

3. an address (usually at a political convention) proposing the name of a candidate to run for election

  Familiarity information: NOMINATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NOMINATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of officially naming a candidate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

the Republican nomination for Governor

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

appointment; assignment; designation; naming (the act of putting a person into a non-elective position)

Derivation:

nominate (propose as a candidate for some honor)

nominate (create and charge with a task or function)

nominate (charge with a function; charge to be)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The condition of having been proposed as a suitable candidate for appointment or election

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Context example:

his nomination was hotly protested

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

condition; status (a state at a particular time)

Derivation:

nominate (propose as a candidate for some honor)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An address (usually at a political convention) proposing the name of a candidate to run for election

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

nominating address; nominating speech; nomination

Context example:

the nomination was brief and to the point

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

oratory (addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous))

Domain category:

government; political science; politics (the study of government of states and other political units)

Derivation:

nominate (propose as a candidate for some honor)