elector
Meanings
Plural: electors
Noun
- a citizen who has a legal right to vote
- any of the German princes who were entitled to vote in the election of new emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
- A person eligible to vote in an election; a member of an electorate, a voter.
- A person eligible to vote to elect a Member of Parliament.
- A person eligible to vote in an election; a member of an electorate, a voter.
- A member of an electoral college; specifically (US) an official selected by a state as a member of the Electoral College to elect the president and vice president of the United States.
- A person eligible to vote in an election; a member of an electorate, a voter.
- Alternative letter-case form of Elector (“a German prince entitled to elect the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire”).
- A person eligible to vote in an election; a member of an electorate, a voter.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English electour (“one with a right to vote in electing some office, elector”), borrowed from Late Latin ēlēctor (“chooser, selector; voter, elector”), from Latin ēligere (“to elect”) + -tor (suffix forming masculine agent nouns), equivalent to elect + -or. Ēligere is the present active infinitive of ēligō (“to extract, pluck or root out; (figurative) to choose, elect, pick out”), from ē- (variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’)) + legō (“to appoint, choose, select”) (from Proto-Italic *legō (“to gather, collect”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to collect, gather”)).
Synonyms
Scrabble Score: 9
elector is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordelector is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
elector is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 11
elector is a valid Words With Friends word