English
Etymology
From spoke, past participle of speak + man
Noun
spokesman (plural spokesmen)
- One who speaks as the voice of a group of people.
- 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- President Moon Jae-in proposed the plan this week during a meeting with government officials, his spokesman said.
Hypernyms
Coordinate terms
Translations
one who speaks as the voice of a group of people
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 發言人／发言人 (zh) (fāyánrén), 发言人 (zh) (fāyánrén)
- Czech: mluvčí (cs) m
- Danish: talsmand c, talskvinde c, talsperson c
- Dutch: woordvoerder (nl) m, woordvoerster (nl) f, zegsman (nl) m, zegsvrouw (nl) f
- Estonian: pressiesindaja
- Finnish: edustaja (fi), tiedottaja (fi), äänitorvi (fi)
- French: porte-parole (fr) m or f
- German: Sprecher (de) m, Sprecherin (de) f, Wortführer (de) m, Wortführerin (de) f
- Hebrew: דובר (he) (dover)
- Hungarian: szóvivő (hu)
- Igbo: asogwa
- Italian: portavoce (it) m or f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: talsmann m, talskvinne m or f, talsperson m
- Nynorsk: talsmann m, talskvinne f, talsperson m
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- Polish: rzecznik (pl) m, rzeczniczka (pl) f
- Portuguese: porta-voz (pt) m or f
- Russian: представи́тель (ru) m (predstavítelʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: портпарол m, гласноговорник m
- Latin: portparol (sh) m, glasnogovornik (sh) m
- Spanish: portavoz (es) m or f, vocero m, vocera (es) f
- Swahili: msemi (sw)
- Swedish: talesman (sv) c, taleskvinna c, talesperson (sv) c
- Turkish: sözcü (tr)
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