Other forms: nominations
A nomination is the naming of somebody as a candidate. Accept the nomination, an Oscar nomination, secure the nomination.
In politics it is the party's choice of who will stand, and winning it can be harder than winning the election. In the arts a nomination is an honour in itself, which is why people say it is an honour just to be nominated and sometimes mean it.
1nounnominationThe naming of somebody as a candidate.
“She accepted her party's nomination for mayor in front of a cheering crowd.”
nomination is a naming.
Latin nominatio comes from nominare, to name, from nomen, a name.
Latin
nōminātiō
Middle French
nominacion
Middle English
nominacion,nomination
English, today
nomination
Built from
From Middle English nominacion,nomination, from Middle French nominacion and its etymon Latin nōminātiō, from the verb nōminō (“to name; to nominate”). by surface analysis, nominate + -ion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA