Constituent

/kənˈstɪtjuənt/ · adjective

Meaning

Being a part or component of a whole..

Definitions by Sense

1. Being a part or component of a whole.
2. Constitutive or constituting.
3. A part, or component of a whole.
4. A person or thing which constitutes, determines, or constructs.
5. A resident of an area represented by an elected official, particularly in relation to that official.
6. (politics) A voter who supports a (political) candidate; a supporter of a cause.
7. (law) One who appoints another to act for him as attorney in fact
8. (grammar) A functional element of a phrase or clause.

Example Sentences

Body, soul, and reason are the three parts necessarily constituent of a man.

The skeleton varies in the proportions, and even to a certain extent in the connexions, of its constituent bones.

We know how to bring these constituents together, and to cause them to form water.

Just as a regiment is ultimately made up of soldiers, so the sentence is of morphemes—they are its ultimate constituents.

whose first composure and origination requires a higher and nobler Constituent than either Chance or the ordinary method of meer Natural causes.

The candidate himself, the son and heir of a peer, feels that he is truly of the same flesh and blood as his constituents; how amiably he smiles!—how bland are his manners!—and with what cordiality does he shake hands with the greasiest and the worst!

He had been chief justice of Chester when Delamere, then Mr. Booth, represented that county in parliament. Booth had bitterly complained to the Commons that the dearest interests of his constituents were intrusted to a drunken jackpudding.

But the purported rise in violent videos online has led some MPs to campaign for courts to have more power to remove or block material on YouTube. The Labour MP Heidi Alexander said she was appalled after a constituent was robbed at knifepoint, and the attackers could be found brandishing weapons and rapping about gang violence online.

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