nominate

Other forms of nominate

past tense

nominated·

present participle

nominating·

third person

nominates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about nominate

What does nominate mean?

nominate means "propose as a candidate for some honor". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nominate?

nominate has 3 syllables: no-mi-nate. The stress falls on "no". In IPA it is /ˈnɑmənət/.

What is another word for nominate?

Close synonyms include put up, put forward, propose, name, make. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nominate a common word?

nominate is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.