Noun: official
| Singular | official |
| Plural | officials |
Sample Sentences
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Officials in the Firefly administration assure the Sylvanians they don't want war either.
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In most soccer games, there are three officials: the referee and two linesmen.
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The company's officials became nabobs as it took on more and more power after Plassey.
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...officials with their prehensile bottoms... [1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. III:]
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If the takeover is approved, Comcast would control 20 of the top 25 cable markets […] Antitrust officials will need to consider Comcast’s status as a monopsony (a buyer with disproportionate power), when it comes to negotiations with programmers, whose channels it pays to carry. [2014 March 15, “Turn it off”, in The Economist, volume 410, number 8878:]
Nouns inflected like official
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English official, from Old French official, from Latin officiālis, from Latin officium (“duty, service”), by surface analysis, office + -ial. See: Middle English Nouns '
official', Latin Nouns '
officiālis', Latin Nouns '
officium'.
Verbs referencing "official"
Spanish Nouns
oficial.