Definitions for nominates

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nominates nom·i·nate

Spelling: [verb nom-uh-neyt; adjective Nominates is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 663 anagrams from letters in nominates (aeimnnost).

Definitions for nominates

adjective

1. having a particular name.

verb (used with object)

1. to propose (someone) for appointment or election to an office.
2. to appoint to a duty or office.
3. to propose for an honor, award, or the like.
4. Horse Racing. to register (a horse) as an entry in a race.
5. to name; designate.
6. Obsolete. to specify.

Origin of nominates

1475-85; Latin nōminātus (past participle of nōmināre to name, call by name), equivalent to nōmin- (stem of nōmen; see nomen) + -ātus Examples for nominates

Drama schools were visited; members of the public were allowed to nominate themselves.

When President Barack Obama had to nominate justices to the Supreme Court, many liberals said they wanted a “liberal Scalia.”

The Stalwarts had bolted the Red Gym and were holding a shadow convention to nominate their own candidates at the opera house.

"But you are not in a position to nominate the questions that I am to put to myself," she said.

And they would, it seems, nominate any movie—no matter how inane—to get those big-name butts in the seats.

As a party they made no concerted effort to nominate candidates.

His uncle could nominate me to posts of honour fit for a caballero.

I've the power to nominate whom I like, and Viola it shall be.

A federal agency simply has to “nominate” you if it has “reasonable suspicion”—which is slightly more than a hunch.

They intended to nominate her and proceeded to root energetically for her.