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prenomination

prenomination adjective: before a nomination.

Adjective

prenomination (not comparable)

  1. before a nomination
    • prenomination speech
    • prenomination rumors

Noun

prenomination (plural prenominations)

  1. The act of prenominating.
  2. The privilege of being named first.
    • Moreover if we concede, that the animals of one Element, might bear the names of those in the other, yet in strict reason the watery productions should have the prenomination: and they of the land rather derive their names, then nominate those of the Sea. That all Animals of the Land, are in their...1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Forms of prenomination

pluralprenominations

Origin of prenomination

From pre- + nomination.

Questions about prenomination

What does prenomination mean?
Prenomination means before a nomination.
What part of speech is prenomination?
Prenomination can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near prenomination in the dictionary

  1. prenominals
  2. prenominate
  3. prenominated
  4. prenominates
  5. prenominating
  6. prenomination
  7. prenominations
  8. prenoms
  9. prenoon
  10. prenote
  11. prenoted

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