Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Serving as part of a whole; component: a constituent element.
- adj. Empowered to elect or designate.
- adj. Authorized to make or amend a constitution: a constituent assembly.
- n. A constituent part; a component. See Synonyms at element.
- n. A resident of a district or member of a group represented by an elected official.
- n. One that authorizes another to act as a representative; a client.
- n. Grammar A functional unit of a grammatical construction, as a verb, noun phrase, or clause.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Constituting or existing as a necessary component or ingredient; forming or composing as a necessary part; component; elementary: as, oxygen and hydrogen are the constituent parts of water.
- Having the power of constituting or appointing, or of electing to public office: as, a constituent body.
- n. One who or that which constitutes or forms, or establishes or determines.
- n. That which constitutes or composes as a part, or a necessary part; a formative element or ingredient.
- n. One who constitutes another his agent; one who empowers another to transact business for him, or appoints another to an office in which the person appointed represents him as his agent.
- n. One who elects or assists in electing another to a public office; more generally, any inhabitant of the district represented by an elective officer, especially by one elected to a legislative body: so called with reference to such officer.
Wiktionary
- adj. being a part, or component of a whole
- adj. authorized to make a constitution
- n. a part, or component of a whole
- n. The person or thing which constitutes, determines, or constructs.
- n. A resident of a place represented by an elected official.
- n. law One who appoints another to act for him as attorney in fact.
- n. grammar A functional element of a phrase or clause.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental; component.
- adj. Having the power of electing or appointing.
- n. The person or thing which constitutes, determines, or constructs.
- n. That which constitutes or composes, as a part, or an essential part; a component; an element.
- n. One for whom another acts; especially, one who is represented by another in a legislative assembly; -- correlative to representative.
- n. (Law) A person who appoints another to act for him as attorney in fact.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (grammar) a word or phrase or clause forming part of a larger grammatical construction
- n. an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system
- n. something determined in relation to something that includes it
- n. a member of a constituency; a citizen who is represented in a government by officials for whom he or she votes
- adj. constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup)
- n. an abstract part of something
Etymologies
- From Latin constituens, present participle of constituo ("I establish"), from com- ("together") + statuo ("I set, place, establish"); see statute or statue, and compare institute and restitute. (Wiktionary)
- Latin cōnstituēns, cōnstituent-, present participle of cōnstituere, to set up; see constitute. N., from French, from Latin cōnstituēns, from present participle of cōnstituere. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“_constituent_ parts of that body; in decomposing it, therefore, we separate its constituent parts.”
“But the philosopher who asks whether the Taj has “whiteness” as a constituent and the philosopher who supposes that the Taj does have this property-constituent and asks, “What is the nature of this relation ˜constituent of™ that ˜whiteness™ bears to the Taj?” are asking questions about its ontological structure.)”
“But time after time, Congressional offices tell us that a personal letter from a constituent is the most powerful form of communication and carries the greatest impact.”
“Her constituent is wearing her dead sisters dentures - nt - hickorystick”
“If a constituent is ready to give anything to their elected officials, they need to be ready to receive anything back from them.”
“You can see the DNC always has to drum up business for their main constituent the scum bag lawyers.”
“This Stupak constituent is happy with him and hope he stays.”
“I know Republicans think Americans in general are stupid as their average constituent is dumber than a box of rocks, but it is becoming very apparent to the majority of Americans that the Empress hath no clothes (or brains for that matter) and once again to the Republicans undoing, a thinking America sees they have no leadership nor direction and any Bozo from the local circus can take the lead spot at any time.”
“Mr. Reich defended his use of the word constituent Friday, saying it was a word he had used often as a congressional aide earlier in his career and did not denote "any sort of sinister relationship.”
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“So I am not sure what it takes to get access to her, but just being a constituent is not one of them.”
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