presidential

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Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
18
Letters
12
Pronunciation
/pɹɛzɪˈdɛnʃ(ə)l/

Definition of presidential

5 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Pertaining to a president or presidency.
    “Take the New Right's full-throated embrace of protectionism and industrial policy. This romance with protectionism started in the 1990s with former GOP presidential candidate Pat Buchanan, gained enormous traction under former President Donald Trump, and is still going strong today.”
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adj

  1. Pertaining to a president or presidency.
    “Take the New Right's full-throated embrace of protectionism and industrial policy. This romance with protectionism started in the 1990s with former GOP presidential candidate Pat Buchanan, gained enormous traction under former President Donald Trump, and is still going strong today.”
  2. (obsolete)Presiding or watching over.
  3. With the bearing or composure that befits a president; stately, dignified.
    “I feel my age and supposed status mean I am permanently required to be in presidential mode. And I mean this in the old sense of “presidential”, meaning magnanimous, patient and generous, rather than in the modern sense of presidential, meaning being a corrupt, pussy-grabbing racist.”
  4. (of prayers) addressed to God on behalf of the congregation by the presiding priest
    “These prayers are addressed to God in the name of the entire holy people and all present, by the priest who presides over the assembly in the person of Christ. It is with good reason, therefore, that they are called the "presidential prayers."”
  5. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of presidential.
    “Seward was not trusted by Greeley, Phillips, Lovejoy, and the radicals of their complexion. They apprehended that after using the "American citizens of African descent," until he (Seward) should be safely seated in the Presidential chair, he would abandon the negro and "Tylerize" their Party; hence, they would not trust him”
    “With the annual Presidential dinner to the Cabinet as a curtain-raiser, there is a short intermission—just one day—before the Diplomatic Reception, when it seems as if the White House becomes a setting for a Graustarkian novel, so bejeweled, besashed, beturbaned, and betiaraed are the guests.”
    “When somebody points up a piece of statesmanship (as opposed to politicianship) in either man's record, there is always the rejoinder: "He has been planning his Presidential climb for many years. This was part of the strategy."”
    “In the days before televised press conferences, or debates between Presidential contenders, the railroads carried the politicians to the people. Here, President Truman addresses a crowd from the verandah of his private car, at Sacramento during the 1952 campaign.”
    “After delaying the decision for three years, the President eventually endorsed the concept in the foremath of the 1984 Presidential election, ...”

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Etymology

From president + -ial.

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