Etimology
From Latin candidātus (“a person who is standing for public office”), from candidus (“dazzling white, shining, clear”) + -ātus (an adjectival suffix), in reference to Roman candidates wearing bleached white togas as a symbol of purity at a public forum. Equivalent to candid + -ate.
noun
candidate (plural candidates)
A person who is running in an election.
A person who is applying for a job.
A participant in an examination.
Something or somebody that may be suitable.
(genetics) A gene which may play a role in a given disease.
Examples
Smith announced he was the party's candidate for the next election.
All candidates who miss the deadline or make a spelling mistake in their applications are automatically rejected.
Candidates must remain silent for the entirety of the exam.
After being presented with various suitors, she decided none of the candidates were the kind of man she was looking for.
In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter.
Related words
related terms
candela
candelabrum
candid
candle
candlepower
candlestick
chandler
chandlery
verb
candidate (third-person singular simple present candidates, present participle candidating, simple past and past participle candidated)
(uncommon) To stand as a candidate for an office, especially a religious one.
(nonstandard, chiefly in jargon and non-native speakers' English) To make or name (something) a candidate (for use, for study as a next project, for investigation as a possible cause of something, etc).
Examples
The matter of candidating for a pulpit is not a matter of difference between congregations and Rabbis, but between Rabbis themselves.
Furthermore, the fact that a school principal has only been in a large school six weeks does not prevent his candidating for principal of a larger school with larger salary.
The report Shaping the Future also gives a set of learning outcomes for those people candidating for ordained ministry. These were also agreed by the Methodist Conference.
Performance comparison of solar energy conversion candidated for SPS.
In this program if a processor becomes idle, then all feasible activities requiring that kind of processor will be candidated for scheduling. If the number of candidates is more than the number of available processors, activities with higher priority ...
Evaluate the maintenance costs of the software system in order to candidate it for evolution AA14. Evaluate the hardware platform used and the possibility of migrating the software system toward more economical platforms ...