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Definitions: Elector |
ElectorNoun1. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "elector" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Satire | ELECTOR, n. One who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man of another man's choice. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
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Synonym: ElectorSynonym: voter (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Master | Prince, duke; (nobility); archduke, doge, elector; seignior; marland, margrave; rajah, emir, wali, sheik nizam, nawab. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Elector |
| English words defined with "elector": Archmarshal ♦ Brandenburg ♦ Electant, Electorality, Electorship, Electress, Elisor ♦ Frederick William ♦ George I, George II ♦ the Great Elector. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "elector": Fools ♦ Great Elector ♦ Iron-tooth ♦ Kingly Titles ♦ President. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "elector": Electorality, Electoress. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Elector" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Romanian (voter), Spanish (constituent, dialer, elector). |
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US Constitution | 1791 | He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows Clause 2: Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector. (reference) |
Amendment to US Constitution | 1795-2006 | No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. (reference) |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom -- and of whom only -- it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did not want any of them for President. If that's an honor surely 'tis a greater To have been a simple and undamned spectator. Behold in me a man of mark and note Whom no elector e'er denied a vote! -- An undiscredited, unhooted gent Who might, for all we know, be President By acclimation. Cheer, ye varlets, cheer -- I'm passing with a wide and open ear! Jonathan Fomry |
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| "Elector" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 52.31% of the time. "Elector" is used about 130 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 52.31% | 68 | 40,606 |
| Noun (proper) | 47.69% | 62 | 42,755 |
| Total | 100.00% | 130 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "elector": the Great Elector ♦ unpolled elector. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
elector | 18 |
credencial de elector | 11 |
elector electronics | 5 |
elector register | 3 |
credencial elector | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "elector"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zgjedhës (constituent, preferential, selective), anëtar i grupit që zgjedh. (various references) | |
Arabic | مقترع (bolting), ناخب (constituent, toaster), المنتخب (elect, selector), أحد أمراء الجرمان. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | гласоподавател (voter), избирател (constituent, vote, voter). (various references) | |
Chinese | 选举人. (various references) | |
Czech | voliè (constituent, selector, voter), kurfiřt. (various references) | |
Danish | vaelger (selecting switch, selector, selector switch). (various references) | |
Dutch | kiezer (hunter, selecting switch, selector, selector switch). (various references) | |
Finnish | valitsijamies, vaaliruhtinas. (various references) | |
French | électeur. (various references) | |
German | wähler (constituent, dialer, electors, holding bar, selector, vertical, vertical bar, voter, voters). (various references) | |
Greek | εκλέκτορασ (selector), εκλογέας. (various references) | |
Hebrew | בוחר (constituent, voter). (various references) | |
Hungarian | elektor, választópolgár (constituent). (various references) | |
Italian | elettore (constituent, voter). (various references) | |
Korean | 거인. (various references) | |
Manx | reihder (chooser, selector). (various references) | |
Norwegian | velger (constituent). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | electoray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | eleitor (Burgess, constituent, electoral, voter), sistema eletivo. (various references) | |
Romanian | votant (voter), principe elector, alegãtor (chooser, constituent, voter). (various references) | |
Russian | избиратель (constituent, electorate, voter). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | birač (constituent, selector). (various references) | |
Spanish | elector (constituent, dialer), optante. (various references) | |
Swedish | väljare (choice device, chooser, constituent, selector, switch, vote, voter). (various references) | |
Thai | ผู้มีสิทธิเลือกตั้ง. (various references) | |
Turkish | seçmen (constituent, electress, poll, voter). (various references) | |
Turkmen | saяlawзy (voter). (various references) | |
Ukranian | вибірник, виборець (constituent, voter). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cử tri. (various references) | |
Welsh | etholydd, etholwr. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "elector": electoral, electorally, electorate, electorates, electors. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "elector": selector. (additional references) | |
Words containing "elector": selectors. (additional references) | |
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"Elector" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alectoria, Allekto, Delecour, eclectro, Eelco, efector, Egertro, electee, electol, electory, electrol, electrom, elektro, eliator, elictor, Elremco. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: electro. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-l-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: colter, creole, lector, tercel. | |
-2 letters: ceorl, creel, elect, erect, recto, relet, terce. | |
-3 letters: celt, cere, cero, cete, clot, cole, colt, core, cote, leer, leet, lore, orle, reel, rete, role, rote, rotl, teel, tele, tole, torc, tore, tree. | |
-4 letters: cee, cel, col, cor, cot, eel, ere, lee, let, lot, ole, orc, ore, ort, rec, ree, ret, roc, roe, rot, tee, tel, toe, tor. | |
-5 letters: el, er, et, lo, oe, or, re, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-l-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: corelate, corselet, coverlet, electors, electron, electros, reclothe, relocate, selector. | |
+2 letters: bracteole, centriole, cerecloth, coeternal, completer, corelated, corelates, correlate, corselets, coverlets, deflector, electoral, electrode, electroed, electrons, latecomer, percolate, reclothed, reclothes, recollect, reflector, relocated, relocatee, relocates, selectors, tolerance, tracheole, trochleae, urceolate, ureotelic. | |
+3 letters: bracteoles, brocatelle, ceilometer, celebrator, centerfold, centrioles, cerecloths, clerestory, clinometer, cloistered, coelentera, coherently, coleoptera, concretely, correlated, correlates, corselette, cotterless, coulometer, cyclometer, deflectors, ectodermal, edulcorate, electorate, electrodes, electroing, electrojet, electronic, enterocoel, florescent, forecastle, hectoliter, helicopter, latecomers, operculate, percolated, percolates, prelection, projectile, reallocate, recollects, reelection, reflection, reflectors, relocatees, telecourse, tolerances, tracheoles, tricolette. | |
+4 letters: accelerator, aeroelastic, bioelectric, breechcloth, breechclout, brocatelles, calorimeter, ceilometers, celebration, celebrators, celebratory, centerfolds, cholesteric, cholesterol, clinometers, coelenteron, coldhearted, coleopteran, colorimeter, concertedly, convertible, copperplate, correctable, correlative, corselettes, coulometers, counterplea, crenelation, cyclometers, decelerator, dereliction, edulcorated, edulcorates, elastomeric, electioneer, electorally, electorates, electrocute, electroform, electrogram, electrojets, electroless, electrology, electrolyte, electrolyze, electronics, electrotype, electroweak, enterocoele, enterocoels, executorial, fluorescent, forecastles, geometrical, hectoliters, helicopters, heliometric, heteroclite, heterocycle, heterolytic, intercooler, intercouple, interlocked, intolerance, isoelectric, myoelectric, neuroleptic, nonelectric, operculated, perchlorate, plecopteran, preelection, prelections, projectable, projectiles, reallocated, reallocates, recollected, reconditely, reelections, reflections, reinoculate, relocatable, sclerometer, sclerotized, telecourses, telocentric, theoretical, thermocline, tricolettes, velocimeter, vorticellae, watercooler. | |
+5 letters: acceleration, accelerators, acetonitrile, antielectron, atheoretical, bachelorette, breechcloths, breechclouts, calorimeters, celebrations, cephalometry, cholesterols, clearstories, clerestories, cloistresses, clotheshorse, clothespress, coelenterate, coleopterans, coleopterist, coleopterous, colorimeters, computerless, computerlike, concelebrant, concelebrate, conferential, conglomerate, conventicler, convertibles, copperplates, correctively, correlatable, correlatives, coulometries, counterpleas, counterspell, counterstyle, craftspeople, crenelations, crenellation, deceleration, decelerators, dechlorinate, decontrolled, decoratively, derelictions, efflorescent, electioneers, electrocuted, electrocutes, electroforms, electrogenic, electrograms, electrolyses, electrolysis, electrolytes, electrolytic, electrolyzed, electrolyzes, electrometer, electrophile, electrophori, electroplate, electroscope, electroshock, electrotonic, electrotonus, electrotyped, electrotyper, electrotypes, endotracheal, enterococcal, enterocoeles, enterocoelic, esoterically, exoterically, fluorescents, forecastable, helicoptered, heliocentric, heterocercal, heteroclites, heterocycles, heterocyclic, inclinometer, incoherently, inoperculate, intercoolers, internucleon, intolerances, lectionaries, meteorically, meteoritical, meteorologic, microelement, neorealistic, neuroleptics, nomenclature, noncelebrity, nonelectrics, olfactometer, otoscleroses, overexplicit, perceptional, perchlorates, plecopterans, precentorial, preceptorial, predilection, preelections, preselection, projectively, prosecutable, protectively, pyroelectric, recollecting, recollection, recreational, reescalation, reflectional, reflectorize, reinoculated, reinoculates, reticulocyte, retinotectal, sclerometers, telecommuter, telocentrics, thermoclines, thermocouple, tredecillion, tuberculoses, uncorrelated, underclothes, velocimeters, watercoolers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 6C 65 63 74 6F 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). .-.. . -.-. - --- .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101100 01100101 01100011 01110100 01101111 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E l e c t o r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006C 0065 0063 0074 006F 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)39787169868184 |
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