noun
Meaning 1
A man who is a leader in national or international affairs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
statesman
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈsteɪtsmən/
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noun
Meaning 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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A man who lives on a landed estate; a small landholder.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
Qualifier: Lake District
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noun
Meaning 4
a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: solon, national leader
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: politician, politico, pol, political leader
Narrower terms: 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, Attlee, Clement Attlee, Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, Augustus, Gaius Octavianus, Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, Octavian, Bacon, Francis Bacon, Sir Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam, 1st Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, Baldwin, Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, Balfour, Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, Baruch, Bernard Baruch, Bernard Mannes Baruch, Begin, Menachem Begin, Ben Gurion, David Ben Gurion, David Grun, Bevin, Ernest Bevin, Bismarck, von Bismarck, Otto von Bismarck, Prince Otto von Bismarck, Prince Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck, Iron Chancellor, Blair, Tony Blair, Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, Bolivar, Simon Bolivar, El Libertador, Brandt, Willy Brandt, Brezhnev, Leonid Brezhnev, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, Brutus, Marcus Junius Brutus, Burke, Edmund Burke, Caesar, Julius Caesar, Gaius Julius Caesar, Cassius, Cassius Longinus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Chamberlain, Neville Chamberlain, Arthur Neville Chamberlain, Chateaubriand, Francois Rene Chateaubriand, Vicomte de Chateaubriand, Chesterfield, Fourth Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Chung-cheng, Churchill, Winston Churchill, Winston S. Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill, Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Tully, Cincinnatus, Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, Clemenceau, Georges Clemenceau, Georges Eugene Benjamin Clemenceau, Clive, Robert Clive, Baron Clive, Baron Clive of Plassey, Cosimo de Medici, Cosimo the Elder, Cromwell, Oliver Cromwell, Ironsides, Davis, Jefferson Davis, Dayan, Moshe Dayan, de Gaulle, General de Gaulle, Charles de Gaulle, General Charles de Gaulle, Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle, Demosthenes, Deng Xiaoping, Teng Hsiao-ping, Teng Hsiaoping, de Valera, Eamon de Valera, Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli, First Earl of Beaconsfield, Flaminius, Gaius Flaminius, Fox, Charles James Fox, Gandhi, Indira Gandhi, Indira Nehru Gandhi, Mrs. Gandhi, Gladstone, William Gladstone, William Ewart Gladstone, Gorbachev, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, Grey, Charles Grey, Second Earl Grey, Haldane, Richard Haldane, Richard Burdon Haldane, First Viscount Haldane of Cloan, Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton, Havel, Vaclav Havel, Hindenburg, Paul von Hindenburg, Paul Ludwig von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, Ho Chi Minh, Nguyen Tat Thanh, Jinnah, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Kalinin, Mikhail Kalinin, Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin, Kaunda, Kenneth Kaunda, Kenneth David Kaunda, Kenyata, Jomo Kenyata, Kerensky, Aleksandr Feodorovich Kerensky, Khama, Sir Seretse Khama, Khrushchev, Nikita Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, Konoe, Fumimaro Konoe, Prince Fumimaro Konoe, Konoye, Fumimaro Konoye, Prince Fumimaro Konoye, Kruger, Oom Paul Kruger, Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, Lorenzo de'Medici, Lorenzo the Magnificent, Machiavelli, Niccolo Machiavelli, Major, John Major, John R. Major, John Roy Major, Mandela, Nelson Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, Marshall, George Marshall, George Catlett Marshall, Meir, Golda Meir, Metternich, Klemens Metternich, Prince Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar von Metternich, Mitterrand, Francois Mitterrand, Francois Maurice Marie Mitterrand, Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, More, Thomas More, Sir Thomas More, Morris, Gouverneur Morris, Mubarak, Hosni Mubarak, Nansen, Fridtjof Nansen, Nasser, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Nehru, Jawaharlal Nehru, North, Frederick North, Second Earl of Guilford, Ortega, Daniel Ortega, Daniel Ortega Saavedra, Paderewski, Ignace Paderewski, Ignace Jan Paderewski, Pericles, Pitt, William Pitt, First Earl of Chatham, Pitt the Elder, Second Earl of Chatham, Pitt the Younger, Pompey, Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, Pompey the Great, Powell, Colin Powell, Colin luther Powell, Putin, Vladimir Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Richelieu, Duc de Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, Rockingham, Second Marquis of Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth, Sadat, Anwar Sadat, Anwar el-Sadat, Schmidt, Helmut Schmidt, Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt, Seneca, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Smith, Ian Smith, Ian Douglas Smith, Smuts, Jan Christian Smuts, Suharto, Sukarno, Achmad Sukarno, Sully, Duc de Sully, Maxmilien de Bethune, Sun Yat-sen, Sun Yixian, Talleyrand, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, Themistocles, Tito, Marshal Tito, Josip Broz, Vargas, Getulio Dornelles Vargas, Verwoerd, Hendrik Verwoerd, Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, Waldheim, Kurt Waldheim, Walesa, Lech Walesa, Walpole, Robert Walpole, Sir Robert Walpole, First Earl of Orford, Warwick, Earl of Warwick, Richard Neville, Kingmaker, Weizmann, Chaim Weizmann, Chaim Azriel Weizmann, Wellington, Duke of Wellington, First Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Iron Duke, Wykeham, William of Wykeham
History
Etymology
From state + -s- + -man, modelled after French homme d'État.
Across languages
Translations
59 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: burrë shtet — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Arabic: رَجُل دَوْلَة (rajul dawla) — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Armenian: պետական գործիչ (petakan gorcičʻ) — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Azerbaijani: dövlət xadimi — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Belarusian: дзяржа́ўны дзе́яч (dzjaržáwny dzjéjač) — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Bulgarian: държа́вник (dǎržávnik) — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Chinese Mandarin: 政治家 (zhèngzhìjiā) — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Czech: státník — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Danish: statsmand — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Dutch: staatsman — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Estonian: riigitegelane — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Finnish: valtiomies — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- French: homme d'État — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Georgian: სახელმწიფო მოღვაწე (saxelmc̣ipo moɣvac̣e) — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- German: Staatsmann — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Hebrew: מְדִינַאי (medinái) — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Hindi: कूटनीतिज्ञ (kūṭnītijña) — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Hindi: स्टेट्समैन (sṭeṭsamain) — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Hungarian: államférfi — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Indonesian: negarawan — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Italian: uomo di stato — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Italian: statista — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Japanese: 政治家 (seijika) — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Kazakh: мемлекеттік қайраткер (memlekettık qairatker) — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Khmer: រដ្ឋបុរស (rŏətborɑh) — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Korean: 정치가 (jeongchiga) — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Korean: 정치인 (jeongchiin) — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Kyrgyz: мамлекеттик ишмер (mamlekettik işmer) — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Lao: ລັດຖະບຸລຸດ (lat tha bu lut) — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Latvian: valstsvīrs — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Lithuanian: valstybininkas — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Macedonian: државник (državnik) — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Malay: negarawan — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Norwegian Bokmål: statsmann — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Norwegian Nynorsk: statsmann — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Persian: زمامدار (zamâmdâr) — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Persian: دُولَتمَرد (dowlat-mard) — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Persian: رَجُلِ سیاسی (rajol-e siyâsi) — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Polish: mąż stanu — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Portuguese: estadista — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Romanian: om de stat — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Russian: госуда́рственный де́ятель (gosudárstvennyj déjatelʹ) — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Serbo-Croatian: др̀жа̄внӣк — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Serbo-Croatian: dr̀žāvnīk — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Slovak: štátnik — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Slovene: državnik — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Spanish: estadista — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Swedish: statsman — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Tagalog: palabanwa — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Tajik: давлатмард (davlatmard) — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Tajik: давлат арбоби (davlat arbob-i) — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Tajik: ходими давлатӣ (xodim-i davlati) — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Thai: รัฐบุรุษ (rát-tà-bù-rùt) — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Turkish: devlet adamı — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Ukrainian: держа́вний дія́ч (deržávnyj dijáč) — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Uzbek: davlat arbobi — man who is a leader in national or international affairs
- Finnish: valtiomies — political leader who promotes the public good
- Polish: mąż stanu — political leader who promotes the public good
- Thai: รัฐบุรุษ (rát-tà-bù-rùt) — political leader who promotes the public good
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