official
having official authority or sanction
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,874 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 5,744 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- having official authority or sanction official permissionan official representative
- of or relating to an office official privileges
- verified officially the election returns are now official
- conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline also: prescribed in prescribed order
- (of a church) given official status as a national or state institution
noun
- a worker who holds or is invested with an office also: functionary
- someone who administers the rules of a game or sport the golfer asked for an official who could give him a ruling
official in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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The commissary began writing, on the corner of a table, a short official report.
The Lerouge Case · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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The expenses of his home were kept within the bounds of his official salary.
The Intrusion of Jimmy · P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse · Chapter 1
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My official permit for the carrying of the pencil heat ray allowed me always to have it with me.
Brigands of the Moon · Ray Cummings · Chapter 1
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The latter gentleman, busy and important, dropped much of his official way when he found whom he was accosting.
The Purchase Price · Emerson Hough · Chapter 1
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It is the respectability of his official life here which made the other possible,--that which has absorbed such enormous sums.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1