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electorate

noun
/ɪˈlɛktəɹət/US

Etymology

From elector (“person eligible to vote in an election; German prince entitled to elect the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire”) + -ate (forms nouns denoting a rank or office, the concrete charge of it).

  1. derived from *leǵ-✻ — “to collect, gather”
  2. derived from *legō✻ — “to gather, collect”
  3. derived from ēligere — “to elect”
  4. derived from ēlēctor — “chooser, selector; voter, elector”
  5. inherited from electour — “one with a right to vote in electing some office, elector”
  6. formed as electorate — “elector + -ate”

Definitions

  1. The collective people of a country, state, or electoral district who are entitled to vote.

    • The votes have been counted and the electorate has spoken.

  2. The office, or area of dominion, of an Elector (“a German prince entitled to elect the…

    The office, or area of dominion, of an Elector (“a German prince entitled to elect the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire”); an electorship.

    • […] Brandenburg, emerging around what would become Berlin, acquired distinct status as an electorate in the mid-fourteenth century.

  3. A geographical area represented by one or more elected officials

    A geographical area represented by one or more elected officials; a constituency, an electoral district.

    • The electorate of Finchley borders on the electorate of Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh, splitting the new housing estate of Royal Cupolas.

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Derived

Electorate of the Palatinate, selectorate, subelectorate

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at electorate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at electorate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at electorate

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA