campaigner, candidate, nominee
(noun) a politician who is running for public office
candidate, prospect
(noun) someone who is considered for something (for an office or prize or honor etc.)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
candidate (plural candidates)
A person who is running in an election.
A person who is applying for a job.
A participant in an examination.
Something or somebody that may be suitable.
(genetics) A gene which may play a role in a given disease.
candidate (third-person singular simple present candidates, present participle candidating, simple past and past participle candidated)
(uncommon) To stand as a candidate for an office, especially a religious one.
(nonstandard, chiefly, in jargon and NNES) To make or name (something) a candidate (for use, for study as a next project, for investigation as a possible cause of something, etc).
Source: Wiktionary
Can"di*date, n. Etym: [L. Candidatus, n. (because candidates for office in Rome were clothed in a white toga.) fr. candidatus clothed in white, fr. candiduslittering, white: cf. F. candidat.]
Definition: One who offers himself, or is put forward by others, as a suitable person or an aspirant or contestant for an office, privilege, or honor; as, a candidate for the office of governor; a candidate for holy orders; a candidate for scholastic honors.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
2 April 2025
(adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; “covert actions by the CIA”; “covert funding for the rebels”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
