statesman

English

Pronunciation

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Etymology

state +‎ -s- +‎ -man, calque of French homme d’État.

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 (petakan gorcičʻ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 政治家 (zh) (zhèngzhìjiā)

• Czech: státník (cs) m
• Danish: statsmand c
• Finnish: valtiomies
• French: homme d’État (fr) m
• Georgian: სახელმწიფო მოღვაწე (saxelmc̣ipo moɣvac̣e)
• German: Staatsmann (de) m
• Japanese: 政治家 (ja) (せいじか, seijika)
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• Macedonian: државник m (državnik)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: statsmann m

  Nynorsk: statsmann m

• Portuguese: estadista (pt) m or f
• Russian: госуда́рственный де́ятель (ru) m (gosudárstvennyj déjatelʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: државник m

  Latin: državnik (sh) m

• Slovene: državnik (sl) m
• Swedish: statsman c
• Tagalog: palabanwa
• Turkish: devlet adamı (tr)

political leader who promotes the public good

• Finnish: valtiomies
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• Polish: mąż stanu m

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• Italian: ^{(please verify)} statista m, ^{(please verify)} uomo di stato m
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• (deprecated template usage) Malayalam: രാഷ്ട്രതന്ത്രജ്ഞന്‍ (raashtrathanthrajnjan)

Related terms

• elder statesman
• statesmanship
• stateswoman
• statesperson

External links

• “statesman”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “statesman”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “statesman”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.