vote – English noun declension

English noun forms of vote

Noun: vote
Singularvote
Pluralvotes

Sample Sentences

  • The city council decided the matter should go to public vote.
  • Parliament will hold a vote of confidence regarding the minister.
  • One occasion indicative votes were used was in 2003 when MPs were presented with seven different options on how to reform the House of Lords.
  • Friday’s vote has permanently redefined the kilogram and sent Le Grand K into retirement. [2018 November 13, Matthew Robinson and Lianne Kolirin, “The world has just redefined the kilogram”, in CNN:]
  • The Supreme Court upheld the principle of one person, one vote.
  • There breathes no being but has some pretence / To that fine instinct called poetic sense; […] / The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand / The vote that shakes the turrets of the land. [1862 [1836], Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., “Poetry: A Metrical Essay”, in The Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Boston, Mass.:: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, pages 7–8:]
  • As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could. [1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC, page 01:]
  • It is important to ensure that shareholders who engage with an investee company by voting know whether their votes have been correctly taken into account. Confirmation of receipt of votes should be provided in the case of electronic voting. In addition, each shareholder who casts a vote in a general meeting should at least have the possibility to verify after the general meeting whether the vote has been validly recorded and counted by the company. [Directive (EU) 2017/828 amending Directive 2007/36/EC, recital 10]
  • If you vote once, you're considered a good citizen. If you vote twice, you face four years in jail. [2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 158:]
  • Jol[ante]. In you, Sir, / I live; and when, or by the Courſe of Nature, / Or Violence you muſt fall, the End of my / Devotions is, that one and the ſame Hour / May make us fit for Heaven. // Server. I join with you / In my votes that way: […] [1633, Philip Massinger, “The Guardian”, in Three New Playes; viz. The Bashful Lover, The Guardian, The Very Woman. As They have been Often Acted at the Private-House in Black-Friers, by His Late Majesties Servants, with Great Applause, London: Printed for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his Shop at the Sign of the Prince's Arms in St. Pauls Church-yard, published 1655, OCLC 15553475; republished as “The Guardian. A Comical History. As It hath been Often Acted at the Private-House in Black-Friars, by His Late Majesty's Servants, with Great Applause, 1655.”, in Thomas Coxeter, editor, The Works of Philip Massinger. Volume the Fourth. Containing, The Guardian. A Very Woman. The Old Law. The City Madam. And Poems on Several Occasions, volume IV, London: Printed for T[homas] Davies, in Russel-street, Covent-Garden, 1761, OCLC 6847259, Act V, scene i, page 71]
  • dissenting vote (i.e. in particular the differing opinion published with a judicial judgment considered as a source of information)

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₁wegʷʰ-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
4. Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
5. Proto-Indo-European *h₁wogʷʰéyeti
6. Proto-Italic *woɣʷeō
7. Proto-Indo-European *-tós
8. Proto-Italic *-tos
9. Proto-Italic *woɣʷetos
10. Proto-Italic *wowitos
11. Latin vōtus
12. Latin vōtumder.
13. English vote
14. From Latin vōtum, a form of voveō (“to vow”) (cognate with Ancient Greek εὔχομαι (eúkhomai, “to vow”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁wegʷʰ- (“to promise, to vow”). Doublet of vow. See: Latin Nouns 'vōtum'.

Verbs referencing "vote"

French Nouns vote, Zulu Nouns ivoti.