landamman

See also: Landamman

English

Etymology

From German Landamman (literally “land bailiff”). See land and ambassador.

Noun

landamman (plural landammans)

1. A chief magistrate in some Swiss cantons.
2. The president of the diet of the Helvetic republic.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “landamman”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)