preside

• præside (archaic)

From Old French presider, from Latin praesidēre (“preside”), from pre- (“before”) + sedere (“to sit”). Displaced Old English foresittan, which might have been a calque of the Latin.

• IPA^(key): /pɹɪˈzaɪd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -aɪd

preside (third-person singular simple present presides, present participle presiding, simple past and past participle presided)

1. (intransitive) To act as president or chairperson.
2. (intransitive) To exercise authority or control.

   Synonym: oversit

   • 1944 September and October, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 283:

     When all this was sailed through, there still remained the toolroom—a most efficient department presided over by a quiet man who was an expert on astronomy as well as jigs, tools and fixtures.

3. (intransitive, music) To be a featured solo performer.

• Perseid, perseid

• IPA^(key): /ˈprɛ.si.de/, /ˈprɛ.zi.de/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɛside, -ɛzide
• Hyphenation: prè‧si‧de

preside m or f by sense (plural presidi)

1. (education) headmaster/headmistress, headteacher, schoolmaster
2. (education) dean, principal

• vicepreside

• presidenza

• preside in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• preside in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• preside in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• preside in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• preside in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• di per sé, spedire, sperdei

preside

1. inflection of presidir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /pɾeˈside/ [pɾeˈsi.ð̞e]
• Rhymes: -ide
• Syllabification: pre‧si‧de

preside

1. inflection of presidir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative