statesman(n = noun.person) national leader, solon - a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs;
is a kind of pol, political leader, politician, politico
has particulars: elder statesman, founding father, stateswoman, acheson, dean acheson, dean gooderham acheson, adenauer, konrad adenauer, agrippa, marcus vipsanius agrippa, alcibiades, arafat, yasser arafat, ataturk, kemal ataturk, kemal pasha, mustafa kemal, 1st earl attlee, attlee, clement attlee, clement richard attlee, augustus, gaius julius caesar octavianus, gaius octavianus, octavian, 1st baron verulam, bacon, baron verulam, francis bacon, sir francis bacon, viscount st. albans, 1st earl baldwin of bewdley, baldwin, stanley baldwin, 1st earl of balfour, arthur james balfour, balfour, baruch, bernard baruch, bernard mannes baruch, begin, menachem begin, ben gurion, david ben gurion, david grun, bevin, ernest bevin, bismarck, iron chancellor, otto von bismarck, prince otto eduard leopold von bismarck, prince otto von bismarck, von bismarck, anthony charles lynton blair, blair, tony blair, anicius manlius severinus boethius, boethius, bolivar, el libertador, simon bolivar, brandt, willy brandt, brezhnev, leonid brezhnev, leonid ilyich brezhnev, brutus, marcus junius brutus, burke, edmund burke, caesar, gaius julius caesar, julius caesar, cassius, cassius longinus, gaius cassius longinus, arthur neville chamberlain, chamberlain, neville chamberlain, chateaubriand, francois rene chateaubriand, vicomte de chateaubriand, chesterfield, fourth earl of chesterfield, philip dormer stanhope, chiang chung-cheng, chiang kai-shek, churchill, sir winston leonard spenser churchill, winston churchill, winston s. churchill, cicero, marcus tullius cicero, tully, cincinnatus, lucius quinctius cincinnatus, clemenceau, georges clemenceau, georges eugene benjamin clemenceau, baron clive, baron clive of plassey, clive, robert clive, cosimo de medici, cosimo the elder, cromwell, ironsides, oliver cromwell, davis, jefferson davis, dayan, moshe dayan, charles andre joseph marie de gaulle, charles de gaulle, de gaulle, general charles de gaulle, general de gaulle, demosthenes, deng xiaoping, teng hsiao-ping, teng hsiaoping, de valera, eamon de valera, benjamin disraeli, disraeli, first earl of beaconsfield, flaminius, gaius flaminius, charles james fox, fox, gandhi, indira gandhi, indira nehru gandhi, mrs. gandhi, gladstone, william ewart gladstone, william gladstone, gorbachev, mikhail gorbachev, mikhail sergeyevich gorbachev, charles grey, grey, second earl grey, first viscount haldane of cloan, haldane, richard burdon haldane, richard haldane, alexander hamilton, hamilton, havel, vaclav havel, hindenburg, paul ludwig von beneckendorff und von hindenburg, paul von hindenburg, ho chi minh, nguyen tat thanh, jinnah, muhammad ali jinnah, kalinin, mikhail ivanovich kalinin, mikhail kalinin, kaunda, kenneth david kaunda, kenneth kaunda, jomo kenyata, kenyata, aleksandr feodorovich kerensky, kerensky, khama, sir seretse khama, khrushchev, nikita khrushchev, nikita sergeyevich khrushchev, fumimaro konoe, fumimaro konoye, konoe, konoye, prince fumimaro konoe, prince fumimaro konoye, kruger, oom paul kruger, stephanus johannes paulus kruger, lorenzo de'medici, lorenzo the magnificent, machiavelli, niccolo machiavelli, john major, john r. major, john roy major, major, mandela, nelson mandela, nelson rolihlahla mandela, george catlett marshall, george marshall, marshall, golda meir, meir, klemens metternich, metternich, prince klemens wenzel nepomuk lothar von metternich, francois maurice marie mitterrand, francois mitterrand, mitterrand, molotov, vyacheslav mikhailovich molotov, more, sir thomas more, thomas more, gouverneur morris, morris, hosni mubarak, mubarak, fridtjof nansen, nansen, gamal abdel nasser, nasser, jawaharlal nehru, nehru, frederick north, north, second earl of guilford, daniel ortega, daniel ortega saavedra, ortega, ignace jan paderewski, ignace paderewski, paderewski, pericles, first earl of chatham, pitt, pitt the elder, william pitt, pitt, pitt the younger, second earl of chatham, william pitt, gnaeus pompeius magnus, pompey, pompey the great, colin luther powell, colin powell, powell, putin, vladimir putin, vladimir vladimirovich putin, radhakrishnan, sarvepalli radhakrishnan, sir sarvepalli radhakrishnan, armand jean du plessis, cardinal richelieu, duc de richelieu, richelieu, charles watson-wentworth, rockingham, second marquis of rockingham, anwar el-sadat, anwar sadat, sadat, helmut heinrich waldemar schmidt, helmut schmidt, schmidt, lucius annaeus seneca, seneca, ian douglas smith, ian smith, smith, jan christian smuts, smuts, suharto, achmad sukarno, sukarno, duc de sully, maxmilien de bethune, sully, sun yat-sen, sun yixian, charles maurice de talleyrand, talleyrand, themistocles, josip broz, marshal tito, tito, getulio dornelles vargas, vargas, hendrik frensch verwoerd, hendrik verwoerd, verwoerd, kurt waldheim, waldheim, lech walesa, walesa, first earl of orford, robert walpole, sir robert walpole, walpole, earl of warwick, kingmaker, richard neville, warwick, chaim azriel weizmann, chaim weizmann, weizmann, arthur wellesley, duke of wellington, first duke of wellington, iron duke, wellington, william of wykeham, wykeham
Derived forms adjective statesmanly1, noun statesmanship1
1. A man versed in public affairs and in the principles and art of government; especially, one eminent for political abilities. [1913 Webster]
"The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light there is shed upon them." [1913 Webster]
2. One occupied with the affairs of government, and influential in shaping its policy. [1913 Webster]
3. A small landholder. Halliwell. [1913 Webster]
statesman, n. (pl. -men; fem. stateswoman, pl. -women)
1 a person skilled in affairs of State, esp. one taking an active part in politics.
2 a distinguished and capable politician.
Derivative:
statesmanlike adj. statesmanly adj. statesmanship n.
Etymology:
= state' s man after F homme d'{eacute}tat
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