DESIGNATE: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for DESIGNATE?

Need another word that means the same as “designate”? Find 19 synonyms and 30 related words for “designate” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Designate” are: destine, doom, fate, indicate, point, show, assign, delegate, depute, intend, specify, denominate, appoint, nominate, classify, class, pronounce, label, tag

Designate as a Verb

Definitions of "Designate" as a verb

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “designate” as a verb can have the following definitions:

• Decree or designate beforehand.
• Assign a name or title to.
• Appoint (someone) to a specified office or post.
• Officially give a specified status or name to.
• Indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively.
• Design or destine.
• Give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person.

Synonyms of "Designate" as a verb (19 Words)

appoint	Assign a job or role to (someone. She has been appointed to the board.
assign	Give an assignment to a person to a post or assign a task to a person. The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise.
class	Arrange or order by classes or categories. How would you classify these pottery shards are they prehistoric.
classify	Arrange (a group of people or things) in classes or categories according to shared qualities or characteristics. How would you classify these pottery shards are they prehistoric.
delegate	Send or authorize (someone) to do something as a representative. The power delegated to him must never be misused.
denominate	(of sums of money) be expressed in a specified monetary unit. The borrowings were denominated in US dollars.
depute	Delegate (authority or a task). She was deputed to look after him while Clare was away.
destine	Design or destine. She was destined to become a great pianist.
doom	Decree or designate beforehand. Her plan was doomed to failure.
fate	Be destined to happen, turn out, or act in a particular way. The regime was fated to end badly.
indicate	Indicate a place direction person or thing either spatially or figuratively. Dotted lines indicate the text s margins.
intend	Mean or intend to express or convey. What do his words intend.
label	Attach a tag or label to. Label these bottles.
nominate	Put forward nominate for appointment to an office or for an honor or position. The company nominated her as a delegate to the convention.
point	Give a point to. The dog pointed the dead duck.
pronounce	Speak pronounce or utter in a certain way. Allow history to pronounce the verdict.
show	Show in or as in a picture. It was Frank s turn to show his frustration.
specify	Specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement make an express demand or provision in an agreement. The coup leader promised an election but did not specify a date.
tag	Attach a tag or label to. Mothers suspected that their babies had been wrongly tagged during an alarm at the hospital.

Usage Examples of "Designate" as a verb

• He was designated as prime minister.
• The Wye Valley is designated an area of outstanding natural beauty.
• Certain schools are designated ‘science schools.

Associations of "Designate" (30 Words)

appellation	The action of giving a name to someone or something. The city fully justifies its appellation the Pearl of the Orient.
appoint	Decide the disposition of (property of which one is not the owner) under powers granted by the owner. He was appointed deputy manager.
assign	Give an assignment to a person to a post or assign a task to a person. This agreement shall be binding upon the parties and their successors and assigns.
assignment	A document effecting a legal transfer of a right or liability. The first task is the assignment of an address to each datum.
authorize	Give or delegate power or authority to. The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography.
authorized	Sanctioned by established authority. An authorized dealer.
candidate	Someone who is considered for something (for an office or prize or honor etc. She was the perfect candidate for a biography.
caucus	Hold or form a legislative caucus. More than half of those young people that caucused yesterday caucused for Barack Obama.
colonel	A rank of officer in the army and in the US air force above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier or brigadier general.
commissioned	Holding by virtue of a commission a rank of second lieutenant or ensign or above. Those interested in pursuing careers as commissioned officers.
commissioner	The head of the Metropolitan Police in London. A baseball commissioner.
delegate	Give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person. Edward was delegated to meet new arrivals.
denominate	Assign a name or title to. The borrowings were denominated in US dollars.
designation	The act of designating or identifying something. Dibden Bay s designation as a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
elected	Subject to popular election.
excellency	An outstanding feature; something in which something or someone excels. His Excellency the Indian Consul General.
mayor	(in the US, Canada, and certain other countries) the head of a municipal corporation, elected by the public.
minister	Work as a minister. Will these women be permitted to minister as priests.
name	Give the name or identifying characteristics of refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property. The big race will lure the top names.
nominate	Put forward nominate for appointment to an office or for an honor or position. The film was nominated for several Oscars.
officer	Provide with military officers. It was an accident officer.
ordain	Make (someone) a priest or minister; confer holy orders on. He was ordained a minister before entering Parliament.
ordained	Invested with ministerial or priestly functions. An ordained priest.
prescribed	Fixed or established especially by order or command. In prescribed order.
president	The head administrative officer of a college or university. The Irish president.
reassign	Allocate or distribute (work or resources) differently. He ordered the ministries to reassign the vehicles.
representative	Being or characteristic of government by representation in which citizens exercise power through elected officers and representatives. There was no representative body to fight for cricketers until 1968.
respectfully	Used to express politeness to mitigate the effect of a refusal or disagreement. I respectfully declined their invitation.
successor	A person or thing that succeeds another. Schoenberg saw himself as a natural successor to the German romantic school.
tenure	Guaranteed permanent employment especially as a teacher or lecturer after a probationary period security of tenure. I had recently been tenured and then promoted to full professor.