spokesman

English

Etymology

From spoke, past participle of speak + man.

Noun

spokesman (plural spokesmen)

1. One who speaks as the voice of another person or a group of people.
   • 2019, VOA Learning English‎^[1], archived from the original on 11 March 2019:

     President Moon Jae-in proposed the plan this week during a meeting with government officials, his spokesman said.

Hypernyms

• spokesperson
• spox

Coordinate terms

• spokesdog
• spokeswoman

Translations

one who speaks as the voice of a group of people

• Armenian: խոսնակ (hy) (xosnak)
• Bashkir: вәкил (vəkil)
• Belarusian: прадстаўнік m (pradstaŭnik), спі́кер m (spíkjer)
• Bulgarian: говори́тел (bg) m (govorítel)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 發言人／发言人 (zh) (fāyánrén)

• Czech: mluvčí (cs) m
• Danish: talsmand c, talskvinde c, talsperson c
• Dutch: woordvoerder (nl) m, zegsman (nl) m
• Estonian: pressiesindaja
• Finnish: edustaja (fi), tiedottaja (fi), äänitorvi (fi), puhetorvi (fi)
• French: porte-parole (fr) m or f
• German: Sprecher (de) m, Wortführer (de) m
• Hebrew: דּוֹבֵר (he) m (dovér)
• Hungarian: szóvivő (hu)
• Igbo: asogwa
• Italian: portavoce (it) m or f
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: berdevk (ku) m or f

• Maori: wahakōrero
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: talsmann m, talsperson m

  Nynorsk: talsmann m, talsperson m

• Polish: rzecznik (pl) m
• Portuguese: porta-voz (pt) m or f
• Romanian: purtător de cuvânt (ro) m
• Russian: представи́тель (ru) m (predstavítelʹ), спи́кер (ru) m (spíker)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: портпарол m, гласногово̀рнӣк m

  Latin: portparol (sh) m, glasnogovòrnīk (sh) m

• Slovak: hovorca m, zástupca m
• Slovene: predstavnik m
• Spanish: portavoz (es) m or f, vocero (es) m
• Swahili: msemi (sw)
• Swedish: talesman (sv) c, talesperson (sv) c
• Turkish: sözcü (tr)
• Ukrainian: ре́чник m (réčnyk), спі́кер m (spíker)