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発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈpɹɛz.ɪ.dənt/
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈpɹez.ɪ.dənt/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈpɹe̝z.ɘ.dɘnt/
• 韻: -ɛzɪdənt
• ハイフネーション: pre‧si‧dent

語源 1

From Old French president, from Latin praesidēns (“presiding over; president, leader”) (accusative: praesidentem). The Latin word is the substantivized present active participle of the verb praesideō (“preside over”). The verb is composed from prae (“before”) and sedeō (“sit”). The original meaning of the verb is 'to sit before' in the sense of presiding at a meeting. A secondary meaning of the verb is 'to command, to govern'. So praesidēns means 'the presiding one on a meeting' or 'governor, commander'.

名詞

president (plural presidents)

1. The head of state of a republic, sometimes also the head of government as well, particularly (US politics) the head of the executive branch of the federal government of the United States of America.

   The vast majority of presidents have been male.

   • 1965, Harry S. Truman, 0:20 from the start, in MP2002-401 Former President Truman Discusses "The Buck Stops Here"‎, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162:

     Well, nobody else can make a decision but me because I was the President and the final decision comes to the President, you know. I used to have a sign on my desk that said, "The Buck Stops Here." The buck stops at the president's desk when he's president of the United States, and he either makes the decisions or he lets them go by default, and you can't afford to do that when you're president.

   • 2007, Benjamin Camins, Hillary Is the Best Choice, Page 144

     […] to change the pattern of the last 220 years of only voting for a white male president, and elect a woman president […]

   • 2025 February 12, Kaitlan Collins and Kevin Liptak, “After Putin call, Trump says negotiations to end Ukraine war will start ‘immediately’”, in CNN‎:

     The call, which is the first known conversation between the presidents since Trump assumed office last month, came as as Trump makes clear to his advisers he wants to bring the Ukraine conflict to a swift end. […] The last US president to visit Russia was Barack Obama in 2013, when he attended a G20 summit.

2. (business) A person presiding over a corporation, usually an executive overseeing daily operations under a chief executive officer but sometimes a separate position held by a CEO.
3. A person presiding over a meeting.
   • 1803, Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution‎:

     The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted;
     The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President, […]

4. A person presiding over a dinner or similar informal conversation.
   • 1834 September 27, Anonymous, "West Indies: Spanish Town, Aug. 2, 1834", Niles' Weekly Register, Vol. XLVII (Vol. XI, 4th Ser.), p. 58:

     At another dinner, the president, on the removal of the cloth, rose and said... We will conduct weself in sich a manner, dat massa will neber be sorry for what him do dis night.

別の表記

• pres. (abbreviation)
• President, Pres. (honorific)
• praesident, præsident, præs. (archaic)

同意語

• (various): prex, prexy, prez (informal)
• (head of state of a republic): POTUS (president of the United States)
• (head of an institution): provost (educational); prepositus
• (head of a meeting): chair, presiding officer, presider

派生語

関連する語

形容詞

president (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Occupying the first rank or chief place; having the highest authority; presiding.
   • 1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC:

     His angels president / In every province.

動詞

president (third-person singular simple present presidents, present participle presidenting, simple past and past participle presidented)

1. To act as president; to do presidential duties.
   • 2026 January 11, Helen Lewis, “The YIMBY Hero Everyone Is Shouting At”, in The Atlantic‎:

     Although in other ways you couldn’t imagine two more dissimilar men, [Scott Wiener's] ferociously active spirit resembles the Bolshevik antsiness of Donald Trump. The current president is attractive to some voters who might not agree with his values, or his language, or even his policies, but who like that the president is, well, presidenting. Last year, Trump bulldozed the East Wing of the White House, one of the most recognizable historic sites in the United States. [In contrast,] In Democratic cities, people demand 38 meetings and three dozen environmental assessments before tearing down a crack den to build a nursery for sad orphans.

語源 2

名詞

president (plural presidents)

1. Obsolete form of precedent.
   • c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vii:

     The thirſt of raigne and ſweetnes of a crowne,
     That cauſd the eldeſt ſonne of heauenly Ops,
     To thruſt his doting father from his chaire,
     And place himſelfe in the Emperiall heauen,
     Moou’d me to menage armes againſt thy ſtate.
     What better preſident than mightie Ioue?

参照

• “president”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “president”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.