Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word OFFICIAL

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Definitions of OFFICIAL

1. Of or pertaining to an office or public trust.
2. Derived from the proper office or officer, or from the proper authority; made or communicated by virtue of authority
3. Approved by authority; authorized.
4. Discharging an office or function.
5. Relating to an office; especially, to a subordinate executive officer or attendant.
6. Relating to an ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction.
7. An office holder, a person holding an official position in government, sports, or other organization.
8. (pharmaceutical) Sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; officinal.
9. (informal) True, real, beyond doubt.
10. (pharmacology) Listed in a national pharmacopeia.

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Examples of Using OFFICIAL in a Sentence

• Arabic is the third most widespread official language after English and French, one of six official languages of the United Nations, and the liturgical language of Islam.
• There have officially been 54 governors of the state of Alabama; this official numbering skips acting and military governors.
• Albert was the first European ruler to establish Lutheranism, and thus Protestantism, as the official state religion of his lands.
• English is the most widely spoken language in the United States; the de facto common language used in government, education and commerce; and an official language of most U.
• It is the country's common language and de facto national language; while Australia has no official language, English is the first language of the majority of the population, and has been entrenched as the de facto national language since British settlement, being the only language spoken in the home for 72% of Australians.
• It replaced "God Save the Queen" as the official national anthem by the Whitlam government in 1974, following an indicative opinion survey.
• Telugu, one of India's classical languages, is the primary official language and the most widely spoken language.
• The official language of Aarau is (the Swiss variety of Standard) German, but the main spoken language is the local variant of the Alemannic Swiss German dialect.
• His song "Massachusetts" was named the official folk song of the state, in which he has lived most of his adult life.
• An official Major League Baseball (MLB) statistic since 1984, it is sometimes referred to as on-base average (OBA), as it is rarely presented as a true percentage.
• In baseball, a stolen base occurs when a runner advances to a base unaided by other actions and the official scorer rules that the advance should be credited to the action of the runner.
• 04(c) of the Official Baseball Rules, a player completes a turn batting when he is put out or becomes a runner.
• Each position conventionally has an associated number, for use in scorekeeping by the official scorer: 1 (pitcher), 2 (catcher), 3 (first baseman), 4 (second baseman), 5 (third baseman), 6 (shortstop), 7 (left fielder), 8 (center fielder), and 9 (right fielder).
• Those two projects were the origin of the official name, the Central Artery/Tunnel Project (CA/T Project).
• The Book of Nehemiah in the Hebrew Bible, largely takes the form of a first-person memoir by Nehemiah, a Jew who is a high official at the Persian court, concerning the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem after the Babylonian exile and the dedication of the city and its people to God's laws (Torah).
• He initially served as de facto acting commissioner beginning in 1992 in his capacity as chairman of the Major League Baseball (MLB) Executive Committee before being named the official commissioner in 1998.
• In principle, the term borough designates a self-governing walled town, although in practice, official use of the term varies widely.
• The official language of Basel is Swiss Standard German and the main spoken language is the local Basel German dialect.
• The game was also modified and published by Steve Jackson Games as an official GURPS supplement in 1992.
• They had a population of 18,544 at the 2010 Census and 20,924 at the 2020 Census; the official estimate as of mid-2023 was 21,902.
• The territory's dual name (official since the islands' incorporation into Australia in 1955) reflects that the islands have historically been known as either the Cocos Islands or the Keeling Islands.
• With the accession of Bulgaria to the European Union on 1 January 2007, Cyrillic became the third official script of the European Union, following the Latin and Greek alphabets.
• However, in practice, the form of cenne (pronounced /sɛn/) has completely replaced the official cent.
• The Council of the European Union, often referred to in the treaties and other official documents simply as the Council, and informally known as the Council of Ministers, is the third of the seven Institutions of the European Union (EU) as listed in the Treaty on European Union.
• Canonization is the declaration of a deceased person as an officially recognized saint, specifically, the official act of a Christian communion declaring a person worthy of public veneration and entering their name in the canon catalogue of saints, or authorized list of that communion's recognized saints.

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