official

Bedeutung

Adj

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. Approved by authority; authorized.
5. Sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; officinal.
6. Discharging an office or function.
7. Relating to an office; especially, to a subordinate executive officer or attendant.
8. Relating to an ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction.
9. (informal) True, real, beyond doubt.
10. Listed in a national pharmacopeia.

Noun

An office holder, a person holding an official position in government, sports, or other organization.

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/əˈfɪʃəl/

Etymologie

From Middle English official, from Old French official, from Latin officiālis, from Latin officium (“duty, service”), by surface analysis, office + -ial.

Sätze

It was the official painting of the occasion and , hence , resides at Buckingham Palace .

Es war das offizielle Gemälde des Anlasss und wohnt daher im Buckingham Palace.