president

sq-noun

presidént m (plural presidentë, definite presidenti, definite plural presidentët)

presidént (canonical masculine)
presidentë (plural)
presidenti (definite)
presidentët (definite plural)
president (indefinite nominative singular)
presidenti (definite nominative singular)
presidentë (indefinite nominative plural)
presidentët (definite nominative plural)
president (accusative indefinite singular)
presidentin (accusative definite singular)
presidentë (accusative indefinite plural)
presidentët (accusative definite plural)
presidenti (dative indefinite singular)
presidentit (dative definite singular)
presidentëve (dative indefinite plural)
presidentëve (dative definite plural)
presidenti (ablative indefinite singular)
presidentit (ablative definite singular)
presidentësh (ablative indefinite plural)
presidentëve (ablative definite plural)


president

→ Spanish: president

Learned borrowing from Latin praesidēns, prasedientem (“presiding over; president, leader”).


president

president (nominative singular)
presidenti (nominative plural)
presidenta (genitive singular)
presidentů (genitive plural)
presidentovi (dative singular)
presidentu (dative singular)
presidentům (dative plural)
presidenta (accusative singular)
presidenty (accusative plural)
presidente (singular vocative)
presidenti (plural vocative)
presidentovi (locative singular)
presidentu (locative singular)
presidentech (locative plural)
presidentem (instrumental singular)
presidenty (instrumental plural)


president

nl-noun

president m (plural presidenten, diminutive presidentje n)

presidenten (plural)
presidentje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: president

→ Caribbean Javanese: présidhèn

→ Indonesian: presiden

→ Papiamentu: presidènt


president

The vast majority of presidents have been male.

Well, nobody else can make a decision but me because I was the President and the final decision comes to the President, you know. I used to have a sign on my desk that said, "The Buck Stops Here." The buck stops at the president's desk when he's president of the United States, and he either makes the decisions or he lets them go by default, and you can't afford to do that when you're president.

1965, Harry S. Truman, 0:20 from the start, in MP2002-401 Former President Truman Discusses "The Buck Stops Here", Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162:

[…] to change the pattern of the last 220 years of only voting for a white male president, and elect a woman president […]

2007, Benjamin Camins, Hillary Is the Best Choice, Page 144

The call, which is the first known conversation between the presidents since Trump assumed office last month, came as as Trump makes clear to his advisers he wants to bring the Ukraine conflict to a swift end. […] The last US president to visit Russia was Barack Obama in 2013, when he attended a G20 summit.

2025 February 12, Kaitlan Collins and Kevin Liptak, “After Putin call, Trump says negotiations to end Ukraine war will start ‘immediately’”, in CNN:

In presidential republics, the head of government and head of state.

Primary leader of a corporation. Not to be confused with CEO, which is a related but separate position that is sometimes held by a different person.

The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted;
The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President,[…]

1803, Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution:

A person presiding over a meeting; a chair, presiding officer, presider.

The thirſt of raigne and ſweetnes of a crowne,
That cauſd the eldeſt ſonne of heauenly Ops,
To thruſt his doting father from his chaire,
And place himſelfe in the Emperiall heauen,
Moou’d me to menage armes againſt thy ſtate.
What better preſident than mightie Ioue?

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vii:

presidents (plural)
President (alternative)
præsident (alternative)

глава́ госуда́рства m or f (glavá gosudárstva, literally “head of state”)

སྲིད་འཛིན (srid 'dzin, literally “dominion-holder”)

sədr

a person presiding over a meeting, chair, presiding officer, presider

From Old French president, from Latin praesidēns (“presiding over; president, leader”) (accusative: praesidentem). The Latin word is the substantivized present active participle of the verb praesideō (“preside over”). The verb is composed from prae (“before”) and sedeō (“sit”). The original meaning of the verb is 'to sit before' in the sense of presiding at a meeting. A secondary meaning of the verb is 'to command, to govern'. So praesidēns means 'the presiding one on a meeting' or 'governor, commander'.


president

His angels president / In every province.

1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC:

(archaic) Occupying the first rank or chief place; having the highest authority; presiding.

President (alternative)
præsident (alternative)


president

To act as president; to do presidential duties.

en-verb

president (third-person singular simple present presidents, present participle presidenting, simple past and past participle presidented)

presidents (present singular third-person)
presidenting (participle present)
presidented (participle past)
presidented (past)
President (alternative)
præsident (alternative)


president

presidenc (plural)
presidënt (alternative)


president

presidenten (definite singular)
presidenter (indefinite plural)
presidentene (definite plural)


president

presidenten (definite singular)
presidentar (indefinite plural)
presidentane (definite plural)


president

Borrowed from Catalan president. Doublet of presidente.


president

a chairman, presiding member of an assembly, e.g. a court of law

a president, head of state in a republic

president (indefinite nominative singular)
presidents (genitive indefinite singular)
presidenten (definite nominative singular)
presidentens (definite genitive singular)
presidenter (indefinite nominative plural)
presidenters (genitive indefinite plural)
presidenterna (definite nominative plural)
presidenternas (definite genitive plural)
præsident (alternative)