postpresidential

adjective

Of or occurring in the period following a person's presidency

OriginEnglish presidential ← Latin post ← Old Latin poste →
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Meanings

adjectivepostpresidential (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf or occurring in the period following a person's presidency

    Until just recently, when he began to cart them back, they were all stacked in Mr. Baker’s barn: piles of Churchill; of Herbert Hoover’s postpresidential papers; war records, biographies, letters, diaries.

    2008 March 4, Charles Mcgrath, “A Debunker on the Road to World War II”, in New York Times

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*pós
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pósti
  3. Proto-Italic*posti
  4. Old Latinposte
  5. Latinpost
  6. Englishpost-
  7. Englishpresidential
  8. Englishpostpresidential

From post- + presidential.

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APA

postpresidential. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postpresidential

MLA

“postpresidential.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postpresidential. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “postpresidential,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postpresidential.

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