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say it: nah-muh-NAY-shuhn
nomination is a noun meaning "the act of officially naming a candidate". It carries 3 recorded senses.
the condition of having been proposed as a suitable candidate for appointment or election
“there was keen competition for the nomination”
“his nomination was hotly protested”
an address (usually at a political convention) proposing the name of a candidate to run for election
“the nomination was brief and to the point”
politics
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for nomination come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.