Definition for Election:

• Those who are elected.

Synonyms for Election:

• n.

  •
  • ballot box,
  • absolute majority,
  • block vote,
  • absentee vote,
  • adoption,
  • abstention,
  • Aye,
  • absentee ballot,
  • casting vote.
  •
  • plebiscite,
  • ticket,
  • franchise,
  • campaign,
  • voting.
  •act (noun)
  • election.
  •appointment (noun)
  • deputation,
  • approval,
  • ordination,
  • Empowering,
  • allotment,
  • promotion,
  • naming,
  • assigning,
  • authorization,
  • commissionings,
  • certification,
  • delegation,
  • Certifications,
  • commissioning,
  • designation,
  • namings,
  • installation.
  •ballot (noun)
  • tally,
  • Polling,
  • slate,
  • plebiscites.
  •choice (noun)
  • judgment,
  • cup of tea,
  • substitute,
  • cull,
  • appraisal,
  • discretion,
  • rating,
  • determination,
  • evaluation,
  • distinction,
  • weakness,
  • alternative,
  • extract,
  • favorite,
  • opportunity,
  • free will,
  • verdict,
  • decision,
  • wish,
  • finding,
  • discrimination,
  • variety,
  • druthers,
  • say,
  • volition,
  • desire.
  •choosing (noun)
  • Separating,
  • deciding,
  • Electing,
  • exercising judgment,
  • making a choice,
  • making up one's mind.
  •election (noun)
  • polls,
  • vote-casting,
  • balloting.
  •preference (noun)
  • groove,
  • top,
  • partiality,
  • prepossession,
  • inclination,
  • predilection,
  • propensity.
  •selecting (noun)
  • de-nomination,
  • isolatings,
  • denominatings,
  • de-nominations,
  • de nomination,
  • de-nominating,
  • de nominations,
  • indicatings,
  • appointings,
  • determinings,
  • de nominating.
  •selection (noun)
  • excerpt,
  • picking,
  • draft,
  • collection,
  • Culling.
  •volition (noun)
  • resolution,
  • will,
  • purpose,
  • accord,
  • willingness.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • general election,
  • off year,
  • electoral,
  • seek,
  • electioneering,
  • landslide,
  • beauty contest,
  • unelected,
  • logrolling,
  • chad,
  • exit poll,
  • show of hands,
  • elective,
  • teller,
  • year,
  • open primary,
  • suffragette,
  • advance poll,
  • proportional representation,
  • Gallup poll,
  • Super Tuesday,
  • hard money,
  • pollster,
  • margin,
  • trail,
  • proxy,
  • by election,
  • universal suffrage,
  • put to,
  • suffrage,
  • disenfranchise,
  • direct elections,
  • scrutineer,
  • popularly.
  •
  • incoming,
  • round,
  • spoiler,
  • fall,
  • elect,
  • rig,
  • unchallenged,
  • poll,
  • platform,
  • recount,
  • enfranchise,
  • whip,
  • runoff.
  •
  • primary,
  • return,
  • marginal.
  •
  • put up,
  • mandate.
  •
  • straight.
  •
  • in.
  •
  • run.

Paraphrases for Election:

• Forward Entailment

  • Proper noun, singular
    vote, VOTES.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    vote.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    voting.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Proper noun, singular
    selection, Selections, poll.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    reelection, selection.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    constituents, matters.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    acclamation, assumption, designation.
  • Adverb
    best.
  • Verb, past tense
    opted, suggested, Wished, wanted, made.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    coming, opting, finding, targeting, standing, designing.
  • Verb, past participle
    Filed, forced, opted, decided, faced, Returned, Served, Purchased, desired, sworn.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    likes, wishes, wants, Does.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    nominees, issues, elect, elects, Polling, Electing, choices, polls, elected, voting, electoral, ballot.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    Re-election, electioneering, balloting, nomination, constituency, elect, Polling, Electing, suffrage, candidature, elected, voting, candidacy, electoral, poll, ballot, race.
  • Verb, past tense
    elections, Chose, Picked, elected, electoral.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    picking, identifying, deciding, running, Electing.
  • Verb, past participle
    elections, nominated, elected.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    elections, decides, desires, elects, choices, elected, electoral.
  • Verb, base form
    elect, electoral, vote.

Antonyms for Election:

• n.

  • Other antonyms:
    duress, necessity, duty, obligation, compulsion, Hobson's Choice, coercion, force.

Election Sentence Examples:

• Any news of the election?

• On the other hand the King granted a greater freedom in the election of bishops, at least in its outward forms.

Homophones for Election:

• elicitation, elocution, elastin, elucidation.

Hypernym for Election:

• n.

  • act
    primary, cumulative vote, runoff, general election, reelection, primary election, by-election, co-option, bye-election, co-optation.

Hyponym for Election:

• n.

  • act
    pick, selection, option, choice, vote.
  • cognition
    predestination, predetermination, foreordination, preordination.
  • state
    status, position.