Definitions for Official

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Official of·fi·cial

Spelling: [uh-fish-uh l]

IPA: /əˈfɪʃ əl/

Official is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 134 anagrams from letters in Official (acffiilo).

Definitions for Official

noun

1. a person appointed or elected to an office or charged with certain duties.

adjective

1. of or relating to an office or position of duty, trust, or authority:
2. authorized or issued authoritatively:
3. holding office.
4. appointed or authorized to act in a designated capacity:
5. (of an activity or event) intended for the notice of the public and performed or held on behalf of officials or of an organization; formal:
6. Pharmacology. noting drugs or drug preparations that are recognized by and that conform to the standards of the United States Pharmacopeia or the National Formulary.

Origin of Official

1300-50; Middle English Late Latin officiālis of duty, equivalent to Latin offici(um) office + -ālis -al¹

Examples for Official

In all history there is no parallel case, and no official record such as his.

Whatever the FBI says, the truthers will create alternative hypotheses that try to challenge the ‘official story.’

She vowed to repay the money—no official word, however, on whether she ever did that.

The declaration, simple as it was, aroused the official to new indignation.

Apart from the video, the Saraya Al-Khorasani group has made no official declaration that it is linked to Taghavi.

Boehner was unanimously selected by the conference as its official nominee for speaker in the coming Congress.

The purchase of official positions in the army was thus abolished.

There is a long history of official anti-clericalism in Mexico, but the atmosphere in Tierra Caliente goes far beyond that.

It was Demarest who gave an official touch to the tragedy of the moment.

They had small place in his concerns as an official of police.