uninominal

1. 1.

   based on the system of having only one member from each district (as of a legislature)

   “a uninominal electoral system”

   Synonymsone-member

   Similarsingle

   legislature

Questions about uninominal

What does uninominal mean?

uninominal means "based on the system of having only one member from each district (as of a legislature)".

How many syllables are in uninominal?

uninominal has 5 syllables: u-ni-no-mi-nal. The stress falls on "no".

What is another word for uninominal?

Close synonyms include one-member. 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 uninominal a common word?

uninominal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.