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say it: PREZ-uh-dent
president is a noun meaning "an executive officer of a firm or corporation". It carries 6 recorded senses.
an executive officer of a firm or corporation
the person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government
“the President likes to jog every morning”
the chief executive of a republic
the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization
“address your remarks to the chairperson”
the head administrative officer of a college or university
the office of the United States head of state
“a President is elected every four years”
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 president 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.