A local politician was called in to inaugurate the new restaurant down the street.
Source: tatoeba (8681181)
Inaugurate
//ɪˈnɔːɡjʊ.ɹeɪt//
Synonyms for "inaugurate" (112 found)
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52 translations across 28 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- اِفْتَتَحَ verb (to dedicate (something) for public access or use with a formal ceremony)
Asturian
1 entries- inaugurar verb (to induct (someone) into a dignity or office with a formal ceremony)
Bulgarian
2 entries- въвеждам в длъжност verb (to induct (someone) into a dignity or office with a formal ceremony)
- откривам verb (to dedicate (something) for public access or use with a formal ceremony)
Campidanese Sardinian
1 entries- incingiài verb (to induct (someone) into a dignity or office with a formal ceremony)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 開幕 /开幕 verb (to dedicate (something) for public access or use with a formal ceremony)
Dutch
3 entries- inhuldigen verb (to induct (someone) into a dignity or office with a formal ceremony)
- inwijden verb (to induct (someone) into a dignity or office with a formal ceremony)
- wijden verb (to induct (someone) into a dignity or office with a formal ceremony)
Esperanto
3 entries- enoficigi verb (to induct (someone) into a dignity or office with a formal ceremony)
- inaŭguri verb (to induct (someone) into a dignity or office with a formal ceremony)
- inaŭguri verb (to dedicate (something) for public access or use with a formal ceremony)
Finnish
4 entries- asettaa virkaan verb (to induct (someone) into a dignity or office with a formal ceremony)
- nimittää virkaan verb (to induct (someone) into a dignity or office with a formal ceremony)
- tehdä suotuisa verb (to cause (something) to be auspicious or good-omened)
- vihkiä verb (to dedicate (something) for public access or use with a formal ceremony)
French
1 entries- inaugurer verb (to induct (someone) into a dignity or office with a formal ceremony)
German
2 entries- einführen verb (to induct (someone) into a dignity or office with a formal ceremony)
- vereidigen verb (to dedicate (something) for public access or use with a formal ceremony)
Greek
1 entries- εγκαινιάζω verb (to dedicate (something) for public access or use with a formal ceremony)
Hindi
2 entries- उद्घाटन verb (to dedicate (something) for public access or use with a formal ceremony)
- उद्घाटन verb (to initiate or usher in (something) with a formal ceremony or in a ceremonious manner)
Hungarian
4 entries- avat verb (to induct (someone) into a dignity or office with a formal ceremony)
- beavat verb (to induct (someone) into a dignity or office with a formal ceremony)
- beiktat verb (to induct (someone) into a dignity or office with a formal ceremony)
- felavat verb (to dedicate (something) for public access or use with a formal ceremony)
Icelandic
1 entries- vígja verb (to induct (someone) into a dignity or office with a formal ceremony)
Italian
1 entries- inaugurare verb (to induct (someone) into a dignity or office with a formal ceremony)
Japanese
1 entries- 発足する verb (to initiate or usher in (something) with a formal ceremony or in a ceremonious manner)
Latin
2 entries- auspicor verb (to induct (someone) into a dignity or office with a formal ceremony)
- auspicor verb (to dedicate (something) for public access or use with a formal ceremony)
Maltese
1 entries- fetaħ verb (to induct (someone) into a dignity or office with a formal ceremony)
Māori
1 entries- whakaoati verb (to induct (someone) into a dignity or office with a formal ceremony)
Portuguese
3 entries- empossar verb (to induct (someone) into a dignity or office with a formal ceremony)
- inaugurar verb (to dedicate (something) for public access or use with a formal ceremony)
- investir verb (to induct (someone) into a dignity or office with a formal ceremony)
Romanian
1 entries- inaugura verb (to induct (someone) into a dignity or office with a formal ceremony)
Russian
3 entries- откры́ть verb (to initiate or usher in (something) with a formal ceremony or in a ceremonious manner)
- открыва́ть verb (to initiate or usher in (something) with a formal ceremony or in a ceremonious manner)
- торже́ственно вводи́ть в до́лжность verb (to induct (someone) into a dignity or office with a formal ceremony)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- inaugurírati verb (to induct (someone) into a dignity or office with a formal ceremony)
- инаугури́рати verb (to induct (someone) into a dignity or office with a formal ceremony)
Slovene
2 entries- otvoriti verb (to dedicate (something) for public access or use with a formal ceremony)
- otvọ̄riti verb (to induct (someone) into a dignity or office with a formal ceremony)
Spanish
2 entries- inaugurar verb (to dedicate (something) for public access or use with a formal ceremony)
- investir verb (to induct (someone) into a dignity or office with a formal ceremony)
Swedish
2 entries- inviga verb (to induct (someone) into a dignity or office with a formal ceremony)
- inviga verb (to dedicate (something) for public access or use with a formal ceremony)
Thai
1 entries- เปิด verb (to initiate or usher in (something) with a formal ceremony or in a ceremonious manner)
Turkish
1 entries- törenle açmak verb (to induct (someone) into a dignity or office with a formal ceremony)
Sample sentences
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I would inaugurate the new era; I would set the example of supreme heroism in science; and all the world, and all future ages, should preserve my name with reverent homage, and enwreath it with laurels of undying fame.
Source: tatoeba (11882439)
The move from the structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power.
Source: tatoeba (12882500)
[…] Cn[aeus] Cornelius Dolabella vvas inaugurat or inſtalled king of the ſacrifices, in ſteed of Marcus Martius, vvho died tvvo yeares before.
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