relegate

Meaning

Verb

1. (transitive) Exile, banish, remove, or send away.
2. (obsolete, rare, reflexive) Exile, banish, remove, or send away.
3. (Ancient-Rome, historical, transitive) Exile, banish, remove, or send away.
4. (figuratively, transitive) Exile, banish, remove, or send away.
5. (transitive) Consign or assign.
6. (transitive) Consign or assign.
7. (transitive) Consign or assign.
8. (transitive) Refer or submit.
9. (transitive) Refer or submit.
10. (archaic, transitive) Refer or submit.

Noun

A person who has been banished from proximity to Rome for a set time, but without losing his civil rights.

Adj

Relegated; exiled.

Opposite of

promote

Synonyms

banish

demote

refer

bar

classify

expel

exile

delegate

submit

kick downstairs

deport

break

abase

lower

pass on

downgrade

commit

bump

degrade

intern

ordinate

ostracize

pigeonhole

place

reduce

refer to

remit

shave

stamp

stereotype

stratify

delevel

ostracise

assign

bracket

bring down

catalog

categorize

cause

consign

cut down

depute

devolve

dismiss

drop

expatriate

flatten

grade

group

hand over

Translations

reléguer

relegare

relegar

bannir

verbannen

sürmek

retrocedere

havale

dégrader

relegieren

υποβιβάζω

verbannen

göndermek

zurück versetzen

zurückversetzen

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɹɛlɪɡeɪt/

Etymology

First attested in 1561, borrowed from Latin relēgātus, the past participle of relēgō (“to dispatch, banish”).