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 (petakan gorcičʿ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 政治家 (zh) (zhèngzhìjiā)

• Czech: státník (cs) m
• Finnish: valtiomies
• French: homme d'État (fr) m
• German: Staatsmann (de) m

• Japanese: 政治家 (ja) (せいじか, seijika)
• Russian: государственный деятель m (gosudárstvennyj déjatel’)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: државник m

  Latin: državnik m

• Swedish: statsman c
• Turkish: devlet adamı (tr)

political leader who promotes the public good

• Finnish: valtiomies

• Polish: mąż stanu 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