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elect

UK/ɪˈlɛkt//ɪˈlɛkt/

elect noun: one chosen or set apart.

Noun

elect (plural elects or elect)

  1. One chosen or set apart.
  2. In Calvinist theology, one foreordained to Heaven. In other Christian theologies, someone chosen by God for salvation.
    • Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 42:1
    • Shall not God avenge his won elect?1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 18:7

Verb

elect (third-person singular simple present elects, present participle electing, simple past and past participle elected)

  1. (transitive) To choose or make a decision (to do something).
  2. (transitive) (Of a group) to officially select one or more candidates in an election to hold office.
    • President Obama in a speech this past week said that we should solve the nation's bee problem. Oh, God, we elected a guy who sympathizes with bees?2014, Norm Macdonald Live, season 2, episode 9, spoken by Norm Macdonald

Adjective

elect (not comparable)

  1. (postpositional) Who has been elected in a specified post, but has not yet entered office.
    • He is the President elect.
    • She began almost to feel a dislike of Edward; and it ended, as every feeling must end with her, by carrying back her thoughts to Willoughby, whose manners formed a contrast sufficiently striking to those of his brother elect.1811, Jane Austen, chapter 16, in Sense and Sensibility
  2. Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more.
    • colours quaint elect1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    • the elect angels1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Timothy 5:21

elect meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

elect in Hindi

to elect
चुनना cunnā

elect in Tamil

தெரிந்தெடு, தேர்ந்தெடு

elect in Urdu

to elect
چننا cunnā

elect in Bengali

নির্বাচিত ব্যক্তি, নির্বাচিত, পছন্দ, চয়িত, নির্বাচিত করা, বাছা
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elect in Malayalam
തിരഞ്ഞെടുക്കുക
elect in Kannada
ಚುನಾಯಿಸು, ಆಯ್ಕೆಮಾಡು, ಆರಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳು, ಆರಿಸು
elect in Gujarati
ચૂંટવું cū̃ṭvũ
elect in Arabic
اِنْتَخَبَ intaḵaba
elect in Thai
เลือกตั้ง lʉ̂ʉak-dtâng
elect in Vietnamese
bầu, tuyển cử, bầu cử, tân cử

Examples of elect in a sentence

  • The memberships of the state chapters elect delegates to the national convention.
  • The news is that a new leader will be elected in one month.
  • The city has five city council districts; however, the mayor is elected at large.

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Antonyms of elect

Forms of elect

Noun
pluralelects
pluralelect
Verb
third-person singular presentelects
present participleelecting
past participleelected
pastelected

Past tense of elect: elected

Plural of elect: elects or elect

Origin of elect

Borrowed from Latin ēlēctus, past participle of ēligō (“to pick out, choose, elect”), from ē- (“out”) + legō (“to pick out, pick, gather, collect, etc.”); see legend. Cognate to eclectic, which is via Ancient Greek rather than Latin, hence prefix ἐκ (ek), rather than e- (from ex).

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Words that rhyme with elect

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Questions about elect

What does elect mean?
Elect means one chosen or set apart.
What is elect in Hindi?
Elect in Hindi is चुनना (cunnā). See Elect meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is elect?
Elect can be a noun, a verb or an adjective.
How do you pronounce elect?
Elect is pronounced /ɪˈlɛkt/ (UK).
What is the plural of elect?
The plural of elect is elects.

Words near elect in the dictionary

  1. elec
  2. elec.
  3. elecampana
  4. elecampane
  5. elecampanes
  6. elect
  7. electabilities
  8. electability
  9. electable
  10. electables
  11. electant

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Adapted from Wiktionary: elect (page history and authors); चुनना (Hindi) (page history and authors); elect (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); چننا (Urdu) (page history and authors); elect (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); elect (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); elect (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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