official

Meanings

Adjective

• Of or pertaining to an office or public trust.
• Derived from the proper office or officer, or from the proper authority; made or communicated by virtue of authority
• Approved by authority; authorized.
• Sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; officinal.
• Discharging an office or function.
• Relating to an office; especially, to a subordinate executive officer or attendant.
• Relating to an ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction.
• True, real, beyond doubt.
• Listen in a national pharmacopeia.

Noun

• An office holder invested with powers and authorities.
• A person responsible for applying the rules of a game or sport in a competition.

Related

Opposite words

• unofficial

Origin

• From Middle English official, from Old French official, from Latin officiālis, from Latin officium ("duty, service").