president
part of speech
noun (a president, presidents; the President)
meaning for a pupil
1) A president is the leader of a country that has no king or queen, usually chosen by the people in an election. tree →
2) A president is the person in charge of a club, company, college or organisation. tree →
sense in the lessons
In citizenship and history lessons the President of the United States and the President of Ireland are heads of state. The UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand have a king or queen as head of state instead. At school there may be a class or student council president. Phrases: run for president, vice president.
examples
- The President gave a speech on television. tree →
- Ireland has a president who lives in Dublin. tree →
- She was elected president of the school council. tree →
- The president of the chess club organised the competition. tree →
- The President of the United States lives in the White House. tree →
- Who will be the next president? tree →
- Then he went to the magistrate, who informed the president of the museum of the discovery, and advised Ib to take the treasures himself to the president. tree →
note
Capital P when it is a title or a particular person: President Lincoln, the President. Related: presidential, presidency. Do not confuse with «prime minister», who leads the government in countries like the UK, Canada and Australia.
In the corpora
- Abraham Lincoln, a US president, died in 1865, long before computers and the internet existed.
- The teddy bear is named after US President Theodore Roosevelt, who in 1902 refused to shoot a bear tied up on a hunt.
- Andorra has two co-princes, the Bishop of Urgell in Spain and the President of France.
- In 2008 Barack Obama was elected the first Black president of the United States.
- In 1797 George Washington stepped down as US president after eight years, a peaceful handover of power.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «president» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.