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PRESIDENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The office of the United States head of state
Example:
a President is elected every four years
Synonyms:
Chief Executive; President; President of the United States
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("President" is a kind of...):
presidency; presidentship (the office and function of president)
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 2
Meaning:
The chief executive of a republic
Classified under:
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:
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 person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government
Example:
the President likes to jog every morning
Synonyms:
Chief Executive; President; President of the United States; United States President
Classified under:
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:
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))
Franklin Pierce; Pierce; President Pierce (14th President of the United States (1804-1869))
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))
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))
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))
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))
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 4
Meaning:
An executive officer of a firm or corporation
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("president" is a kind of...):
business executive; corporate executive (an executive in a business corporation)
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 5
Meaning:
The head administrative officer of a college or university
Synonyms:
president; prexy
Classified under:
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 officer who presides at the meetings of an organization
Example:
address your remarks to the chairperson
Synonyms:
chair; chairman; chairperson; chairwoman; president
Classified under:
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)
Context examples:
Daniel San Vicente, cardiologist and president of the Montevideo regional council of the Medical College of Uruguay, said the current concentration of particles in the air was not enough to have an impact on health.
(Australian bushfire smoke drifts to South America, SciDev.Net)
Pickwick, the president, read the paper, which was filled with original tales, poetry, local news, funny advertisements, and hints, in which they good-naturedly reminded each other of their faults and short comings.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Well, a bowdlerized version of it would run: 'Professor Challenger presents his compliments to the President of the Zoological Institute, and would take it as a personal favor if he would go to the devil.'
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The famous Smith-Mortimer succession case comes also within this period, and so does the tracking and arrest of Huret, the Boulevard assassin—an exploit which won for Holmes an autograph letter of thanks from the French President and the Order of the Legion of Honour.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"Go on, go on!" added Winkle and Tupman, while the President bowed benignly.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
'Challenger, George Edward. Born: Largs, N. B., 1863. Educ.: Largs Academy; Edinburgh University. British Museum Assistant, 1892. Assistant-Keeper of Comparative Anthropology Department, 1893. Resigned after acrimonious correspondence same year. Winner of Crayston Medal for Zoological Research. Foreign Member of'—well, quite a lot of things, about two inches of small type—'Societe Belge, American Academy of Sciences, La Plata, etc., etc. Ex-President Palaeontological Society. Section H, British Association'—so on, so on!—'Publications: Some Observations Upon a Series of Kalmuck Skulls; Outlines of Vertebrate Evolution; and numerous papers, including The underlying fallacy of Weissmannism, which caused heated discussion at the Zoological Congress of Vienna. Recreations: Walking, Alpine climbing. Address: Enmore Park, Kensington, W.' There, take it with you.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But the new member was equal to the occasion, and rising, with a grateful salutation to the Chair, said in the most engaging manner, Mr. President and ladies—I beg pardon, gentlemen—allow me to introduce myself as Sam Weller, the very humble servant of the club.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
As the President finished reading the paper (which I beg leave to assure my readers is a bona fide copy of one written by bona fide girls once upon a time), a round of applause followed, and then Mr. Snodgrass rose to make a proposition.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Mr. President and gentlemen, he began, assuming a parliamentary attitude and tone, I wish to propose the admission of a new member—one who highly deserves the honor, would be deeply grateful for it, and would add immensely to the spirit of the club, the literary value of the paper, and be no end jolly and nice.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
First place, we didn't have any president—
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
