nomination

English

Etymology

From Middle English nominacion, nomination, from Middle French nominacion and its etymon Latin nōminātiō, from the verb nōminō (“to name; to nominate”). By surface analysis, nominate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌnɑmɪˈneɪʃən/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌnɒmɪˈneɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• Hyphenation: nom‧i‧na‧tion

Noun

nomination (countable and uncountable, plural nominations)

1. An act or instance of nominating.

   Her nomination for the award came as a pleasant surprise.

   The committee announced his nomination for the position of president.

   After the nomination, he was required to accept or decline the offer.

2. (more common) The result of such a nomination act.
3. A device or means by which a person or thing is nominated. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Derived terms

• neknomination
• nomination borough
• nomination game
• nonnomination
• prenomination
• renomination

Related terms

• nominate
• denomination

Translations

an act or instance of nominating

• Arabic: تَعْيِين m (taʕyīn), تَرْشِيح m (taršīḥ)
• Belarusian: прызначэ́нне n (pryznačénnje), назначэ́нне n (naznačénnje), наміна́цыя f (naminácyja)
• Bulgarian: номина́ция f (nominácija), назначе́ние (bg) n (naznačénie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 提名 (zh) (tímíng), 指名 (zh) (zhǐmíng)

• Coptic: ⲯⲩⲫⲟⲥ (psuphos)
• Czech: nominace (cs) f
• Finnish: ehdollepano, nimeäminen (fi)
• French: nomination (fr) f
• Galician: nomeamento (gl) m
• German: Nominierung (de) f, Aufstellung (de) f, Kandidatenkür f
• Greek: αναγόρευση (el) f (anagórefsi)

  Ancient Greek: ὀνομασία f (onomasía)

• Hindi: नामांकन m (nāmāṅkan)
• Hungarian: jelölés (hu)
• Irish: ainmniú m
• Italian: nominazione (it) f
• Japanese: 指名 (ja) (しめい, shimei), ノミネート (ja) (nominēto)
• Kazakh: номинация (nominasiä), атау (atau)
• Korean: 지명(指名) (ko) (jimyeong), 노미네이트 (nomineiteu), 공천(公薦) (gongcheon)
• Māori: whakaingoatanga, tautapatanga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nominasjon (no) m

  Nynorsk: nominasjon m

• Polish: nominacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: nomeação (pt) f
• Russian: назначе́ние (ru) n (naznačénije), номина́ция (ru) f (nominácija)
• Slovak: nominácia f
• Spanish: nominación (es) f
• Swedish: nominering (sv)
• Tagalog: sangalan
• Ukrainian: ви́значення (uk) n (význačennja), призна́чення (uk) n (pryznáčennja), номіна́ція (uk) f (nominácija)

a device or means by which a person or thing is nominated

• Dutch: nominatie (nl) f
• Greek: αναγόρευση (el) f (anagórefsi)
• Irish: ainmniúchán m
• Māori: whakaingoatanga
• Russian: выдвиже́ние (ru) n (vydvižénije), номина́ция (ru) f (nominácija)

Further reading

• nomination on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Noun

nomination c (singular definite nominationen, plural indefinite nominationer)

1. nomination

Declension

Declension of nomination

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	nomination	nominationen	nominationer	nominationerne
genitive	nominations	nominationens	nominationers	nominationernes

Further reading

• “nomination” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nominātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɔ.mi.na.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

nomination f (plural nominations)

1. nomination
   • 2015 September 22, “Nicolas Sarkozy place son bras droit Frédéric Péchenard à la fédération LR de Paris”, in Le Monde‎^[1]:

     La nomination de M. Péchenard – qui cumulera les fonctions de directeur général de LR et de secrétaire départemental – illustre la volonté de M. Sarkozy de mettre la main sur la fédération de Paris, jugée trop filloniste à son goût.

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Related terms

• nominer
• nommer

Further reading

• “nomination”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012