PRESIDENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does President mean? 

• PRESIDENT (noun)
  The noun PRESIDENT has 6 senses:

1. an executive officer of a firm or corporation

2. the person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government

3. the chief executive of a republic

4. the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization

5. the head administrative officer of a college or university

6. the office of the United States head of state

  Familiarity information: PRESIDENT used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRESIDENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An executive officer of a firm or corporation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

business executive; corporate executive (an executive in a business corporation)

Derivation:

preside (act as president)

presidentship (the office and function of president)

presidential (relating to a president or presidency)

presidency (the tenure of a president)

presidency (the office and function of president)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Chief Executive; President; President of the United States; United States President

Context example:

the President likes to jog every morning

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

chief of state; head of state (the chief public representative of a country who may also be the head of government)

Instance hyponyms:

Franklin Pierce; Pierce; President Pierce (14th President of the United States (1804-1869))

Andrew Jackson; Jackson; Old Hickory (7th president of the US; successfully defended New Orleans from the British in 1815; expanded the power of the presidency (1767-1845))

Jefferson; President Jefferson; Thomas Jefferson (3rd President of the United States; chief drafter of the Declaration of Independence; made the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and sent out the Lewis and Clark Expedition to explore it (1743-1826))

Andrew Johnson; Johnson; President Andrew Johnson; President Johnson (17th President of the United States; was elected vice president and succeeded Lincoln when Lincoln was assassinated; was impeached but acquitted by one vote (1808-1875))

Johnson; LBJ; Lyndon Baines Johnson; Lyndon Johnson; President Johnson; President Lyndon Johnson (36th President of the United States; was elected vice president and succeeded Kennedy when Kennedy was assassinated (1908-1973))

Jack Kennedy; JFK; John Fitzgerald Kennedy; Kennedy; President John F. Kennedy; President Kennedy (35th President of the United States; established the Peace Corps; assassinated in Dallas (1917-1963))

Abraham Lincoln; Lincoln; President Abraham Lincoln; President Lincoln (16th President of the United States; saved the Union during the American Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865))

James Madison; Madison; President Madison (4th President of the United States; member of the Continental Congress and rapporteur at the Constitutional Convention in 1776; helped frame the Bill of Rights (1751-1836))

McKinley; President McKinley; William McKinley (25th President of the United States; was assassinated by an anarchist (1843-1901))

James Monroe; Monroe; President Monroe (5th President of the United States; author of the Monroe Doctrine (1758-1831))

Nixon; President Nixon; Richard M. Nixon; Richard Milhous Nixon; Richard Nixon (vice president under Eisenhower and 37th President of the United States; resigned after the Watergate scandal in 1974 (1913-1994))

President Wilson; Thomas Woodrow Wilson; Wilson; Woodrow Wilson (28th President of the United States; led the United States in World War I and secured the formation of the League of Nations (1856-1924))

James K. Polk; James Knox Polk; James Polk; Polk; President Polk (11th President of the United States; his expansionism led to the Mexican War and the annexation of California and much of the southwest (1795-1849))

President Reagan; Reagan; Ronald Reagan; Ronald Wilson Reagan (40th President of the United States (1911-2004))

President Roosevelt; President Theodore Roosevelt; Roosevelt; Theodore Roosevelt (26th President of the United States; hero of the Spanish-American War; Panama Canal was built during his administration)

F. D. Roosevelt; FDR; Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Franklin Roosevelt; President Franklin Roosevelt; President Roosevelt; Roosevelt (32nd President of the United States; elected four times; instituted New Deal to counter the Great Depression and led country during World War II (1882-1945))

President Taft; Taft; William Howard Taft (27th President of the United States and later chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1857-1930))

President Taylor; Taylor; Zachary Taylor (12th President of the United States; died in office (1784-1850))

Harry S Truman; Harry Truman; President Truman; Truman (elected vice president in Roosevelt's 4th term; became 33rd President of the United States on Roosevelt's death in 1945 and was elected President in 1948; authorized the use of atomic bombs against Japan (1884-1972))

John Tyler; President Tyler; Tyler (elected vice president and became the 10th President of the United States when Harrison died (1790-1862))

Martin Van Buren; President Van Buren; Van Buren (8th President of the United States (1782-1862))

George Washington; President Washington; Washington (1st President of the United States; commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution (1732-1799))

Hayes; President Hayes; Rutherford B. Hayes; Rutherford Birchard Hayes (19th President of the United States; his administration removed federal troops from the South and so ended the Reconstruction Period (1822-1893))

Adams; John Adams; President Adams; President John Adams (2nd President of the United States (1735-1826))

Adams; John Quincy Adams; President Adams; President John Quincy Adams (6th President of the United States; son of John Adams (1767-1848))

Arthur; Chester A. Arthur; Chester Alan Arthur; President Arthur (elected vice president and became 21st President of the United States when Garfield was assassinated (1830-1886))

Buchanan; James Buchanan; President Buchanan (15th President of the United States (1791-1868))

Bush; George Bush; George H. W. Bush; George H.W. Bush; George Herbert Walker Bush; President Bush (vice president under Reagan and 41st President of the United States (born in 1924))

Bush; Dubya; Dubyuh; George Bush; George W. Bush; George Walker Bush; President Bush; President George W. Bush (43rd President of the United States; son of George Herbert Walker Bush (born in 1946))

Barack Hussein Obama; Obama (44th President of the United States; first African-American President)

Carter; James Earl Carter; James Earl Carter Jr.; Jimmy Carter; President Carter (39th President of the United States (1924-))

Cleveland; Grover Cleveland; President Cleveland; Stephen Grover Cleveland (22nd and 24th President of the United States (1837-1908))

Bill Clinton; Clinton; President Clinton; William Jefferson Clinton (42nd President of the United States (1946-))

Calvin Coolidge; Coolidge; President Coolidge (elected vice president and succeeded as 30th President of the United States when Harding died in 1923 (1872-1933))

Dwight D. Eisenhower; Dwight David Eisenhower; Dwight Eisenhower; Eisenhower; Ike; President Eisenhower (United States general who supervised the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany; 34th President of the United States (1890-1961))

Fillmore; Millard Fillmore; President Fillmore (elected vice president and became the 13th President of the United States when Zachary Taylor died in office (1800-1874))

Ford; Gerald Ford; Gerald R. Ford; Gerald Rudolph Ford; President Ford (38th President of the United States; appointed vice president and succeeded Nixon when Nixon resigned (1913-2006))

Garfield; James A. Garfield; James Abraham Garfield; James Garfield; President Garfield (20th President of the United States; assassinated by a frustrated office-seeker (1831-1881))

Grant; Hiram Ulysses Grant; President Grant; Ulysses Grant; Ulysses S. Grant; Ulysses Simpson Grant (18th President of the United States; commander of the Union armies in the American Civil War (1822-1885))

Harding; President Harding; Warren Gamaliel Harding; Warren Harding (29th President of the United States; two of his appointees were involved in the Teapot Dome scandal (1865-1823))

Harrison; President Harrison; President William Henry Harrison; William Henry Harrison (9th President of the United States; caught pneumonia during his inauguration and died shortly after (1773-1841))

Benjamin Harrison; Harrison; President Benjamin Harrison; President Harrison (23rd President of the United States (1833-1901))

Herbert Clark Hoover; Herbert Hoover; Hoover; President Hoover (31st President of the United States; in 1929 the stock market crashed and the economy collapsed and Hoover was defeated for reelection by Franklin Roosevelt (1874-1964))

Holonyms ("President" is a part of...):

executive branch; Executive Office of the President (the branch of the United States government that is responsible for carrying out the laws)

Derivation:

preside (act as president)

presidency (the office and function of president)

presidency (the tenure of a president)

presidential (relating to a president or presidency)

presidentship (the office and function of president)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The chief executive of a republic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

chief of state; head of state (the chief public representative of a country who may also be the head of government)

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

ex-president (a former president)

Instance hyponyms:

Finnbogadottir; Vigdis Finnbogadottir (former president of Iceland; first woman to be democratically elected head of state (born in 1930))

Derivation:

presidentship (the office and function of president)

presidential (relating to a president or presidency)

presidency (the tenure of a president)

presidency (the office and function of president)

preside (act as president)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The officer who presides at the meetings of an organization

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

chair; chairman; chairperson; chairwoman; president

Context example:

address your remarks to the chairperson

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

presiding officer (the leader of a group meeting)

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

Kalon Tripa (the chairman of the Kashag and essentially head of the Tibetan government-in-exile)

vice chairman (one ranking below or serving in the place of a chairman)

Derivation:

preside (act as president)

presidency (the office and function of president)

presidency (the tenure of a president)

presidentship (the office and function of president)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The head administrative officer of a college or university

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

president; prexy

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

academic administrator (an administrator in a college or university)

Derivation:

preside (act as president)

presidency (the office and function of president)

presidency (the tenure of a president)

presidential (relating to a president or presidency)

presidentship (the office and function of president)

Sense 6

Meaning:

The office of the United States head of state

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

Chief Executive; President; President of the United States

Context example:

a President is elected every four years

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

presidency; presidentship (the office and function of president)

Derivation:

presidency (the office and function of president)

presidency (the tenure of a president)

presidentship (the office and function of president)

preside (act as president)

 Context examples 

"We'll put it to a vote," said the President.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Father's a railroad president and many times millionnaire, but the son's starving in 'Frisco, editing an anarchist sheet for twenty-five a month.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He said J Bruce Ismay, President of the firm behind construction of RMS Titanic, ordered the twelve men tasked to attempting to control the fire to avoid informing passengers.

(UK documentary claims fire weakened RMS Titanic, Wikinews)

The monument was originally created in 2006 by President George W. Bush and designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2010.

(National monument in Hawaii becomes world's largest marine protected area, NOAA)

Experts say as many as 2 million Americans are addicted to opioids and President Donald Trump has declared it a national health emergency.

(Study: Common Painkillers as Effective as Opioids in Hospital Emergency Room, VOA)

In the 1800s, the buffalo were hunted nearly to extinction not only for their valuable hides but also because many U.S. generals, including President Ulysses S. Grant, believed that removing the buffalo would undermine the economies of many of the Native American tribes that depended on them for food and goods and make it easier to push them onto reservations.

(Northern Arapaho Tribe welcomes buffalo herd in Wyoming, United States, Wikinews)

Wadley sent a message: 'The President of the Zoological Institute presents his compliments to Professor Challenger, and would take it as a personal favor if he would do them the honor to come to their next meeting.'

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Our months of partnership had not been so uneventful as he had stated, for I find, on looking over my notes, that this period includes the case of the papers of ex-President Murillo, and also the shocking affair of the Dutch steamship Friesland, which so nearly cost us both our lives.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There were only ourselves and the servants there, one or two old friends of his from Exeter, his London agent, and a gentleman representing Sir John Paxton, the President of the Incorporated Law Society.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It’s all right for you, ’Ump. You was born a gentleman. You never knew wot it was to go ’ungry, to cry yerself asleep with yer little belly gnawin’ an’ gnawin’, like a rat inside yer. It carn’t come right. If I was President of the United Stytes to-morrer, ’ow would it fill my belly for one time w’en I was a kiddy and it went empty?

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)