preside

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See also: préside and présidé

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French presider, from Latin praesidēre (“preside”), from pre- (“before”) + sedere (“to sit”). Displaced Old English foresittan, which might have been a calque of the Latin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɹɪˈzaɪd/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɪd

Verb

preside (third-person singular simple present presides, present participle presiding, simple past and past participle presided)

  1. (intransitive) To act as president or chairperson.
  2. (intransitive) To exercise authority or control.
    Synonym: oversit
    • 1944 September and October, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 283:
      When all this was sailed through, there still remained the toolroom—a most efficient department presided over by a quiet man who was an expert on astronomy as well as jigs, tools and fixtures.
  3. (intransitive, music) To be a featured solo performer.

Translations

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Anagrams

Italian

Pronunciation

Noun

preside m or f by sense (plural presidi)

  1. (education) headmaster/headmistress, headteacher, schoolmaster
  2. (education) dean, principal

Derived terms

Related terms

References

  1. ^ preside in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Further reading

  • preside in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
  • preside in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
  • preside in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
  • preside in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
  • preside in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Portuguese

Verb

preside

  1. inflection of presidir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɾeˈside/
  • Rhymes: -ide
  • Syllabification: pre‧si‧de

Verb

preside

  1. inflection of presidir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative
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