“voted” is a form of
vote
UK /vəʊt/ · US /voʊt/ noun, verb
Forms votes voting voted votest votedst voteth Vod Vot
- noun A formalized choice on legally relevant measures such as employment or appointment to office or a proceeding about a legal dispute. “The city council decided the matter should go to public vote.”
- noun An act or instance of participating in such a choice, e.g., by submitting a ballot. “The Supreme Court upheld the principle of one person, one vote.”
- noun (obsolete) An ardent wish or desire; a vow; a prayer.
- noun (obsolete) A formalized petition or request.
- noun (obsolete) Any judgment of intellect leading to a formal opinion, a point of view.
- noun Any judgment of intellect leading not only to a formal opinion but also to a particular choice in a legally relevant measure, a point of view as published. “dissenting vote (i.e. in particular the differing opinion published with a judicial judgment considered as a source of information)”
- verb (intransitive) To cast a vote; to assert a formalized choice in an election. “Q: Did you vote last month? A: Yes. I voted for John Smith, and it's a shame that he lost; you can't blame me for the mess we're in now.”
- verb (transitive) To choose or grant (some objective) by means of a vote, or by general consent. “The directors voted an increase in R&D spending.”
- verb (transitive) To exercise one's voting right upon (a ballot or a share of stock). “vote your ballot”
- noun A person from Votia or of Votic descent.
Synonyms
Votian ballot voting balloting right to vote suffrage voter turnout
Etymology
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.
From German Wote, ultimately from Votic vadʹdʹa, vadʹdʹalain (“Votian”). Compare Estonian vadjalane.
Webster’s 1913
- noun An ardent wish or desire; a vow; a prayer. [Obs.] Massinger.
- noun A wish, choice, or opinion, of a person or a body of persons, expressed in some received and authorized way; the expression of a wish, desire, will, preference, or choice, in regard to any measure proposed, in which the person voting has an interest in common with others, either in electing a person to office, or in passing laws, rules, regulations, etc.; suffrage.
- verb To express or signify the mind, will, or preference, either viva voce, or by ballot, or by other authorized means, as in electing persons to office, in passing laws, regulations, etc., or in deciding on any proposition in which one has an interest with others.
- verb To choose by suffrage; to elecas, to vote a candidate into office.
Etymology [L. votum a vow, wish, will, fr. vovere, votum, to vow: cf. F. vote. See Vow.]
Etymology [Cf. F. voter.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “vote”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details