ex-president

[ eks-prez-i-duhnt ]

noun

1. a former president:

   ex-president of the company.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ex-president¹

An Americanism dating back to 1790–1800

Example Sentences

This leaves his son, George W. Bush, as the only living ex-president not to support gay marriage.

From The Daily Beast

Then Dugin recommended supporting fugitive Ukrainian ex-president Victor Yanukovych, who is now in Russia.

From The Daily Beast

In Donetsk, the ex-president reportedly tried to escape in a private plane, but border guards prevented him from taking off.

From The Daily Beast

Grief nourishes myth and a new CNN poll registers JFK as our most admired ex-president from the past half century.

From The Daily Beast

Instead, the loudest voices come from the ever-tweeting ex-president, Alvaro Uribe, and his supporters.

From The Daily Beast

Ex-President Roosevelt here entered the hall amid cheers and rousing enthusiasm and mounted the platform.

From Project Gutenberg

Ex-President Grant, for example, in his famous trip round the world, posed at every court he approached as a royal personage.

From Project Gutenberg

Friends, and enemies as well, of the imprisoned ex-President began to clamor for his trial or release.

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The ex-President, thus driven at bay, fulminates the secret infamy in all its foul extent to the whole world.

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He was astonished to find this noted man and ex-President of the United States living in a one-story frame house.

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