election

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a vote to select the winner of a position or political office

   the results of the election will be announced tonight

2. 2
   noun

   the status or fact of being elected

   They celebrated the candidate's election.

3. 3
   noun

   A process of choosing a leader, members of parliament, councillors, or other representatives by popular vote.

   The parliamentary election(s) will be held in March.

4. 4
   noun

   The choice of a leader or representative by popular vote.

   The election of John Smith was due to his broad appeal.

5. 5
   noun

   An option that is selected.

   W-4 election

6. 6
   noun

   Any conscious choice.

   Whosoever searcheth all the circumstances and embraceth all the consequences thereof hindereth his election.

7. 7
   noun

   In Calvinism, God's predestination of saints including all of the elect.

   [H]e [Paul] laboureth to comfort Timothy vvith the remembrance of the ſtedfaſtneſs of Gods eternal decree of Election, becauſe grounded on his foreknowledge; […]

8. 8
   noun

   Those who are elected.

   The election hath obtained it.

Etymology

From Middle English eleccioun, eleccion, from Anglo-Norman eleccioun, from Latin ēlectiōn-, stem of ēlectiō (“choice, selection”), from ēligō (“to pluck out, to choose”). Equivalent to elect + -ion.