candidate
//ˈkæn.dɪ.dət//
Forms
- Plural
- candidates
- present (v1)
- candidate
- past (v2)
- candidated
- past participle (v3)
- candidated
- present participle
- candidating
- 3rd person singular
- candidates
Definitions
1.A person who seeks to be elected or appointed to a position or privilege.
- Smith announced he was the party's candidate for the next election.
- All candidates who miss the deadline or make a spelling mistake in their applications are automatically rejected.
2.A person who is thought likely or worthy to gain a position or privilege.
- He officially announced himself as a candidate.
3.A participant in an examination.
- Candidates must remain silent for the entirety of the exam.
4.Someone or something likely or suited to undergo or be chosen for a purpose.
- After being presented with various suitors, she decided none of the candidates were the kind of man she was looking for.
- In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter.
1.To stand as a candidate for an office, typically for a religious one.
- The matter of candidating for a pulpit is not a matter of difference between congregations and Rabbis, but between Rabbis themselves.
- The report Shaping the Future also gives a set of learning outcomes for those people candidating for ordained ministry. These were also agreed by the Methodist Conference.
- Furthermore, the fact that a school principal has only been in a large school six weeks does not prevent his candidating for principal of a larger school with larger salary.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #830
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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Etymology
From Latin candidātus (“a person who is standing for public office”, noun), from candidus (“dazzling white, shining, clear”) + -ātus, -āta, -ātum (participial adjective-forming suffix), in reference to Roman candidates wearing bleached white togas as a symbol of purity at a public forum.