designate
Meaning of designate
- appoint (someone) to a specified office or post.
he was designated as prime minister
- appointed to an office or post but not yet installed.
the Director designate
mid 17th century (as an adjective): from Latin designatus ‘designated’, past participle of designare, based on signum ‘a mark’.
Information about designate
- The plural form of designate is: designates.
- Languages in which designate is used:
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Hyphenation of designate
des-ig-nate
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- designate is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
designate synonyms
Meaning denominate:
Meaning delegate:
Meaning destine:
Meaning intend:
Meaning assign a job or role to (someone):
Meaning appoint to a job or position:
Meaning carefully choose as being the best or most suitable:
Meaning pick out (someone or something) as being the best or most appropriate of two or more alternatives:
Meaning choose (someone or something) from a number of alternatives:
Meaning choose (someone) to hold public office or some other position by voting:
Meaning give a name to:
Meaning establish or indicate who or what (someone or something) is:
Meaning give or apportion (something) to someone:
Meaning (of God or fate) decide (something) in advance:
Meaning admit (someone) formally to a post or organization:
Translation of designate
- Italian: assegnare, attribuire, deputare, distinguere, differenziare
- French: assigner, distinguer, différencier, discerner
- Spanish: asignar, atribuir, adjudicar, designar, distinguir, diferenciar, discernir, deslindar
- Portuguese: atribuir
- German: zuweisen, zusprechen
Words that rhyme with designate
Nate, Alphanate, Banate, Bromanate, Depanate, Italianate, Lomanate, Plasmanate, Thiophanate, acetylglucopyranosylisothiocyanate, acetylphenylisothiocyanate, acetyltryptophanate, adamantylisocyanate, aldermanate, allophanate, alloxanate, allylisothiocyanate, allylthiocyanate, aminobenzylpenicilianate, aminoethylthiocyanate, aminopenicillanate, amoscanate, anate, applanate, azidophenylisothiocyanate, banate, benzoylisothiocyanate, benzylisothiocyanate, benzylthiocyanate, biphenyldiisocyanate, biphenylisothiocyanate, bisthiocyanate, bitoscanate, bromoallylisothiocyanate, bromoallylthiocyanate, bromobenzylisothiocyanate, bromopenicillanate, bromophenylisocyanate, bromophenylisothiocyanate, butenylisothiocyanate, butylcyanate, butylisothiocyanate, calpanate, cephalosporanate, chlorobenzylthiocyanate, chloroethylisocyanate, chloromethylthiocyanate, chlorophenylisothiocyanate, chlorophenylthiocyanate, chlorosulfonylisocyanate