head of state

See also: head-of-state

English

Noun

Wikipedia

head of state ‎(plural heads of state)

1. The chief public representative of a nation having duties, privileges and responsibilities varying greatly depending on the constitutional rules; a monarch in a monarchy, and often styled president in a republic, but variations such as collegiality exist.

See also

• head of government

Translations

the chief public representative of a nation

• Catalan: cap d'estat m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 國家元首 (zh), 国家元首 (zh) ‎(guójiā yuánshǒu), 元首 (zh) ‎(yuánshǒu), 政府首腦 (zh), 政府首脑 (zh) ‎(zhèngfǔ shǒunǎo)

• Danish: statsoverhoved (da) n
• Dutch: staatshoofd (nl) n
• Esperanto: ŝtatestro
• Estonian: riigipea
• Finnish: valtionpäämies (fi)
• French: chef d'État (fr) m
• German: Staatsoberhaupt (de) n, Staatschef (de) m
• Hungarian: államfő (hu)
• Indonesian: kepala negara (id)
• Italian: capo di stato
• Japanese: 国家元首 ‎(こっかげんしゅ, kokkagenshu), 元首 (ja) ‎(げんしゅ, genshu)

• Khmer: ប្រមុខរដ្ឋ ‎(prɑmuk roat)
• Luxembourgish: Staatschef m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: statsoverhode (no) n

  Nynorsk: statsoverhovud n

• Polish: głowa państwa m, f
• Portuguese: chefe de estado m, f
• Romanian: șef de stat m
• Russian: глава́ госуда́рства m, f ‎(glavá gosudárstva)
• Southern Altai: эл башчы ‎(el başçı)
• Spanish: jefe de Estado m, mandatario m
• Swedish: statschef (sv) c, statsöverhuvud (sv) n
• Turkish: devlet başkanı (tr)
• Ukrainian: голова́ держа́ви m, f ‎(holová deržávy)
• Vietnamese: nguyên thủ quốc gia, quốc trưởng (vi)

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• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} cabo de estado m