"POTUS" meaning in All languages combined

See POTUS on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈpəʊ.təs/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈpoʊ.təs/ [General-American] Forms: POTUSes [plural], POTUSs [plural]
Rhymes: -əʊtəs Etymology: Phillips Code abbreviation, 1895. In more common usage since the 1990s. Head templates: {{en-noun|es|+}} POTUS (plural POTUSes or POTUSs)
  1. (US politics) Acronym of President of the United States. Wikipedia link: Michael Quinion Tags: US, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of Alternative form of: President of the United States Categories (topical): Occupations, People, US politics Derived forms: GEOTUS Related terms: FLOTUS, SCOTUS, VPOTUS
    Sense id: en-POTUS-en-noun-~Mpqvd5a Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Topics: government, politics

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_text": "Phillips Code abbreviation, 1895. In more common usage since the 1990s.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "POTUSes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "POTUSs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "+"
      },
      "expansion": "POTUS (plural POTUSes or POTUSs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "PO‧TUS"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "President of the United States"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Occupations",
          "orig": "en:Occupations",
          "parents": [
            "People",
            "Work",
            "Human",
            "Human activity",
            "All topics",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "People",
          "orig": "en:People",
          "parents": [
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "US politics",
          "orig": "en:US politics",
          "parents": [
            "Politics",
            "United States",
            "Society",
            "North America",
            "All topics",
            "America",
            "Fundamental",
            "Earth",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "GEOTUS"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001, Richard Carmona, Christopher M. Grande, Dario Gonzalez, “Trauma Care Support for Mass Events, Counterterrorism, and VIP”, in Eldar Søreide, Christopher M. Grande, editors, Prehospital Trauma Care, New York, N.Y.; Basel: Marcel Dekker, Inc., →ISBN, part D (Transportation and Specific Problems), page 732:",
          "text": "The medical history of the principal is extremely important in assessing risk in any given protective detail for a myriad of activities of the protectee [34]. Once again, using the example of the POTUS or former POTUSs (the POTUS has Secret Service protection for life), the range of health status is from extremely healthy and physically active to relatively sedentary with significant medical problems, including endocrine, metabolic, and/or cardiac, with an implantable automatic defibrillator in one protectee.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016 April 13, Liliana Sikorska, “Sir Isumbras Meets Jack Bauer, or on the (Re)Reading of Medieval Saracen Romances”, in Sławomir Wacewicz, Przemysław Żywiczyński, editors, Theoria et Historia Scientiarum, volume XII (2015), Toruń: Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 105:",
          "text": "Isumbras does not seem to be returning to the place he came from and Jack Bauer keeps leaving his job and returns to it several times – he always tries to lead a “normal” life and is never given such a possibility. Assuming however, that even partial re-integration carries the force of a closure, Bauer is rewarded with friendships among the high and mighty (successive POTUSs of the series feature, Isumbras fares better than Jack, as he receives “more welthe thenne evere he was” (l. 761)⁴⁸.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 October 28, Gabrielle Bruney, “Some Lucky Accused Criminal Could Have Obama on Their Jury”, in Esquire, Hearst Magazine Media, Inc., retrieved 2020-02-23:",
          "text": "It makes sense that ex-POTUSes don't tend to make it onto juries.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023, Ryan McGee, “Fifth Inning: The Blues Brothers, Macaulay Culkin, and the Circuit Rider”, in Welcome to the Circus of Baseball: A Story of the Perfect Summer at the Perfect Ballpark at the Perfect Time, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, →ISBN:",
          "text": "It felt like every Asheville restaurant had a framed photo of Daniel Day-Lewis and Madeline^([sic]) Stowe dining in their establishment, taken when the pair resided in a downtown hotel during the 1991 filming of The Last of the Mohicans. If not those two, then there was a pic of another duo, James Garner and Jack Lemmon, who marched through the streets of Asheville in a scene when they (as former POTUSs) accidentally crash a gay pride parade in My Fellow Americans.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Acronym of President of the United States."
      ],
      "id": "en-POTUS-en-noun-~Mpqvd5a",
      "links": [
        [
          "President",
          "President#English"
        ],
        [
          "United States",
          "United States#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US politics) Acronym of President of the United States."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "FLOTUS"
        },
        {
          "word": "SCOTUS"
        },
        {
          "word": "VPOTUS"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "abbreviation",
        "acronym",
        "alt-of"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "politics"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Michael Quinion"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpəʊ.təs/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpoʊ.təs/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-əʊtəs"
    }
  ],
  "word": "POTUS"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "GEOTUS"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Phillips Code abbreviation, 1895. In more common usage since the 1990s.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "POTUSes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "POTUSs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "+"
      },
      "expansion": "POTUS (plural POTUSes or POTUSs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "PO‧TUS"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "FLOTUS"
    },
    {
      "word": "SCOTUS"
    },
    {
      "word": "VPOTUS"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "President of the United States"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English acronyms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with irregular plurals",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Rhymes:English/əʊtəs",
        "Rhymes:English/əʊtəs/2 syllables",
        "en:Occupations",
        "en:People",
        "en:US politics"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001, Richard Carmona, Christopher M. Grande, Dario Gonzalez, “Trauma Care Support for Mass Events, Counterterrorism, and VIP”, in Eldar Søreide, Christopher M. Grande, editors, Prehospital Trauma Care, New York, N.Y.; Basel: Marcel Dekker, Inc., →ISBN, part D (Transportation and Specific Problems), page 732:",
          "text": "The medical history of the principal is extremely important in assessing risk in any given protective detail for a myriad of activities of the protectee [34]. Once again, using the example of the POTUS or former POTUSs (the POTUS has Secret Service protection for life), the range of health status is from extremely healthy and physically active to relatively sedentary with significant medical problems, including endocrine, metabolic, and/or cardiac, with an implantable automatic defibrillator in one protectee.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016 April 13, Liliana Sikorska, “Sir Isumbras Meets Jack Bauer, or on the (Re)Reading of Medieval Saracen Romances”, in Sławomir Wacewicz, Przemysław Żywiczyński, editors, Theoria et Historia Scientiarum, volume XII (2015), Toruń: Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 105:",
          "text": "Isumbras does not seem to be returning to the place he came from and Jack Bauer keeps leaving his job and returns to it several times – he always tries to lead a “normal” life and is never given such a possibility. Assuming however, that even partial re-integration carries the force of a closure, Bauer is rewarded with friendships among the high and mighty (successive POTUSs of the series feature, Isumbras fares better than Jack, as he receives “more welthe thenne evere he was” (l. 761)⁴⁸.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 October 28, Gabrielle Bruney, “Some Lucky Accused Criminal Could Have Obama on Their Jury”, in Esquire, Hearst Magazine Media, Inc., retrieved 2020-02-23:",
          "text": "It makes sense that ex-POTUSes don't tend to make it onto juries.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023, Ryan McGee, “Fifth Inning: The Blues Brothers, Macaulay Culkin, and the Circuit Rider”, in Welcome to the Circus of Baseball: A Story of the Perfect Summer at the Perfect Ballpark at the Perfect Time, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, →ISBN:",
          "text": "It felt like every Asheville restaurant had a framed photo of Daniel Day-Lewis and Madeline^([sic]) Stowe dining in their establishment, taken when the pair resided in a downtown hotel during the 1991 filming of The Last of the Mohicans. If not those two, then there was a pic of another duo, James Garner and Jack Lemmon, who marched through the streets of Asheville in a scene when they (as former POTUSs) accidentally crash a gay pride parade in My Fellow Americans.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Acronym of President of the United States."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "President",
          "President#English"
        ],
        [
          "United States",
          "United States#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US politics) Acronym of President of the United States."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "abbreviation",
        "acronym",
        "alt-of"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "government",
        "politics"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Michael Quinion"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpəʊ.təs/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpoʊ.təs/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-əʊtəs"
    }
  ],
  "word": "POTUS"
}

Download raw JSONL data for POTUS meaning in All languages combined (4.2kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-02 using wiktextract (f90d964 and 9dbd323). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.