statesman

English

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Etymology

Calque of French homme d'état, state's +‎ -man

Noun

statesman (plural statesmen)

1. A man who is a leader in national or international affairs.
2. A male political leader who promotes the public good or who is recognized for probity, leadership, or the qualities necessary to govern a state.
3. In the dialect of the English Lake District and nearby, a man who lives on a landed estate.

Translations

man who is a leader in national or international affairs

Armenian: պետական գործիչ (hy) (petakan gorçič) Chinese: Mandarin: 政治家 (cmn) (zhèngzhìjiā) Czech: státník (cs) m. French: homme d'État (fr) m. German: Staatsmann (de) m. Japanese: 政治家 (ja) (せいじか, seijika)

Russian: государственный деятель (ru) (gosudárstvennyj déjatel’) m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: државник (sh) m. Latin: državnik (sh) m. Swedish: statsman (sv) c. Turkish: devlet adamı (tr)

political leader who promotes the public good

Polish: mąż stanu (pl) m.

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Italian: statista m., uomo di stato m.

Malayalam: രാഷ്ട്രതന്ത്രജ്ഞന്‍ (raashtrathanthrajnjan)

Related terms

• elder statesman
• statesmanship

External links

• statesman in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• statesman in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• statesman at OneLook Dictionary Search