election
(noun) the act of selecting someone or something; the exercise of deliberate choice; “her election of medicine as a profession”
election
(noun) a vote to select the winner of a position or political office; “the results of the election will be announced tonight”
election
(noun) the predestination of some individuals as objects of divine mercy (especially as conceived by Calvinists)
election
(noun) the status or fact of being elected; “they celebrated his election”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
election (countable and uncountable, plural elections)
A process of choosing a leader, members of parliament, councillors, or other representatives by popular vote.
The choice of a leader or representative by popular vote.
An option that is selected.
(archaic) Any conscious choice.
(theology) In Calvinism, God's predestination of saints including all of the elect.
(obsolete) Those who are elected.
• (theology): chosenness
• direct election
• general election
• indirect election
• primary election
• snap election
Source: Wiktionary
E*lec"tion, n. Etym: [F. Ă©lection, L. electio, fr. eligere to choose out. See Elect, a.]
1. The act of choosing; choice; selection.
2. The act of choosing a person to fill an office, or to membership in a society, as by ballot, uplifted hands, or viva voce; as, the election of a president or a mayor. Corruption in elections is the great enemy of freedom. J. Adams.
3. Power of choosing; free will; liberty to choose or act. "By his own election led to ill." Daniel.
4. Discriminating choice; discernment. [Obs.] To use men with much difference and election is good. Bacon.
5. (Theol.)
Definition: Divine choice; predestination of individuals as objects of mercy and salvation; -- one of the "five points" of Calvinism. There is a remnant according to the election of grace. Rom. xi. 5.
6. (Law)
Definition: The choice, made by a party, of two alternatives, by taking one of which, the chooser is excluded from the other.
7. Those who are elected. [Obs.] The election hath obtained it. Rom. xi. 7. To contest an election. See under Contest.
– To make one's election, to choose. He has made his election to walk, in the main, in the old paths. Fitzed. Hall.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 July 2025
(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; “in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing”
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
