Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A person who seeks or is nominated for an office, prize, or honor.
- n. A student who has nearly completed the requirements for a degree.
- n. One that seems likely to gain a certain position or come to a certain fate: young actors who are candidates for stardom; a memorandum that is a good candidate for the trash can.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A person who seeks or is put forward by others for an office or honor; one who offers himself or is proposed for office or preferment, by election or appointment: as, a candidate for the office of sheriff, or for a degree.
- To render qualified as a candidate.
- To become a candidate; seek or aspire to some office; offer one's self or one's services as a candidate, as a clergyman seeking a parish or a charge; compete with others as a candidate.
- n. One who seeks or is an aspirant for something other than office or preferment: as, a candidate for literary fame; “a candidate of heaven,”
- n. A member of the white-robed body-guard of the Roman emperors, established about 237 a. d. by Gordianus the Younger.
Wiktionary
- n. A person who is running in an election or who is applying to a position for a job.
- n. A participant in an examination.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who offers himself, or is put forward by others, as a suitable person or an aspirant or contestant for an office, privilege, or honor.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a politician who is running for public office
- n. someone who is considered for something (for an office or prize or honor etc.)
Etymologies
- From Latin candidatus ("a person who is standing for public office"), the perfect passive participle of candidare, from candidus ("candid, white"), in reference to Roman candidates wearing bleached white togas as a symbol of purity at a public forum. (Wiktionary)
- Latin candidātus, clothed in white (from the white togas worn by Romans seeking office), candidate, from candidus, white; see candid. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Polling on a write-in candidate is notoriously hard to do accurately, for starters.”
The Huffington Post: Chris Weigant: Senate Midterm Election Overview
“The main candidate is Jose Serra, who was the governor of Sao Paulo State, and he's a very capable administrator, and he had been very popular in this area.”
NPR: Brazil's 'Most Popular Politician On Earth' Prepares Exit
“The traditional role of the VP candidate is to attack the Presidential candidate from the other party - the Prez candidate himself can be quiet to keep his hands clean, but the case needs to be made.”
“I have no idea what a Bush/McCain candidate is .... to my recollection, McCain is a member of the Senate .... not the executive branch.”
“Fortunately that fear-monger/anything to win candidate is done .....”
“The two joined forces against a local candidate from a powerful English Protestant mercantile family, Lieutenant Robert Carter, to support a drop-in candidate from St. John's, Irish Catholic merchant Patrick Morris. 12 When the polls opened, Winsor spoke against Carter, using "very tantalizing language towards him to create popularity among the crowd.”
“How did a discussion of whether a candidate is a good Christian become part and parcel of a discussion of who should enter a national political body in the year 2010?”
The Huffington Post: Stanton Peele: Sometimes It's Hard to Be a Democrat
“How did a discussion of whether a candidate is a "good Christian" become part and parcel of a discussion of who should enter a national political body in the year 2010?”
The Huffington Post: Stanton Peele: Sometimes It's Hard to Be a Democrat
“And remember, just because the candidate is a woman doesn't mean she supports equality and action that will return our country to economic prosperity.”
The Huffington Post: Marcia Reynolds: Gender Equality: Why Do We Still Lag Behind Other Countries?
“When I enter the voting booth next Tuesday, I won't ask myself if a candidate is a person who will always do the right thing.”
The Huffington Post: Richard (RJ) Eskow: I Know, I Know. Vote Anyway!
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘candidate’.
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
1. EU Buzz - single words
2. EU Buzz - collocations
3. EU Buzz - the 100 most active
collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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POL - presidential debates
Some of the catchwords of several presidential debates (Obama-Romney 2012 Denver debate's transcript fully included)
preexist, crosstalk, figure skate, preexisting, spending cut, preconceive, zinger, excruciate, ask over, miniaturize, food stamp, Medicare and 150 more...
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Dramatic Nouns
Nouns to be used as descriptions while writing stories
night owl, early bird, hedonist, ascetic, derelict, explorer, radical, pity friend, cupid, truant, caretaker, guardian and 120 more...
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Society
social work, coverage, affiliate, social security, ambulance, clinic, health, insurance, emergency, mail, letter, envelope and 101 more...
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AFET - diplomacy
broker a peace ac..., client state, deadlocked peace ..., embassy, freeze, goodwill ambassador, hinterland, interfere in dome..., intervene personally, maintain technica..., mediation, no business as usual and 670 more...
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EU - Eurovoc - politics
absolute majority, absolute monarchy, abstentionism, access to informa..., acquisition of arms, action brought be..., action for annulment, action to establi..., ad hoc committee, adjournment, adjournment motion, administration and 965 more...
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POL - elections
weak democracy, stand a chance ag..., whistle stop, special interest ..., voting machine, trumpeting support, voting power, to court votes, war chest, short-term observ..., soak-the-rich lef..., term of office and 930 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...health, follow, condition, meeting, minister, beginning, chapter, information, language, remain, covered, respect and 2614 more...
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INTERP - people and posts
annunciator, assistant, authorizing officer, back-bencher, board member, candidate, chair, chairman, chairperson, clerk of committees, commissioner, committee assistant and 70 more...
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It's a date!
date, date palm, dating, save the date, it's a date, radiocarbon dating, uranium-thorium d..., rubidium-strontiu..., date night, date of birth, dateline, double date and 65 more...
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Latin Spelling Bee List
need to know these words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
inane, ambivalent, incriminate, interrupt, amicable, meticulous, animosity, curriculum, electoral, transect, condolences, bugle and 132 more...
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Masonry
Due to my absolute ignorance of masonry and masonic terms, this list is shamelessly copied from this masonic dictionary.
Feel free to add words (as soon as I complete my transcription).abif, accepted, accord, active member, adjournment, admonish, adoration, adversity, affiliate, affirmation, lawful age, aid of deity and 143 more...
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dark and bright words of shine and fi...
scotophil, scotoma, scotia, shed, shadow, shade, scone, whiting, edelweiss, light, lightning, lucina and 349 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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A Dalliance of Dahlias
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Rose words by mollusque
Rose varieties by mollusque
Tulip Names I
Tulip Names II: You Know My Name
A Myriad of Iriia la mode, ace o' hearts, acclimation, adhesion, admirable, adorable you, advance, affirmed, after glow, agricola, alabama melody, alabaster queen and 1152 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for candidate.
pterodactyl See this map for American pronunciation. Apr 10, 2008