statesman

English

Etymology

From state +‎ -s- +‎ -man, modelled after French homme d'État.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsteɪtsmən/

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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. (dialectal, Lake District) A man who lives on a landed estate; a small landholder.

Synonyms

• wealsman

Related terms

• elder statesman
• statesmanship
• stateswoman
• statesperson

Translations

man who is a leader in national or international affairs

• Arabic: رَجُل دَوْلَة‎ m (rajul dawla)
• Armenian: պետական գործիչ (petakan gorcičʿ)
• Bulgarian: държавник (bg) m (dǎržavnik)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 政治家 (zh) (zhèngzhìjiā)

• Czech: státník (cs) m
• Danish: statsmand c
• Estonian: riigitegelane
• Finnish: valtiomies (fi)
• French: homme d'État (fr) m
• Georgian: სახელმწიფო მოღვაწე (saxelmc̣ipo moɣvac̣e)
• German: Staatsmann (de) m
• Hebrew: מְדִינַאי‎ (he)
• Hindi: कूटनीतिज्ञ m (kūṭnītigya)
• Hungarian: államférfi (hu)
• Japanese: 政治家 (ja) (せいじか, seijika)
• Macedonian: државник m (državnik)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: statsmann m

  Nynorsk: statsmann m

• Portuguese: estadista (pt) m or f
• Romanian: om de stat (ro) m
• Russian: госуда́рственный де́ятель (ru) m (gosudárstvennyj déjatelʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: државник m

  Latin: državnik (sh) m

• Slovene: državnik (sl) m
• Spanish: estadista (es)
• Swedish: statsman (sv) c
• Tagalog: palabanwa
• Thai: รัฐบุรุษ (th) (rát-tà-bù-rùt)
• Turkish: devlet adamı (tr)

political leader who promotes the public good

• Finnish: valtiomies (fi)
• Polish: mąż stanu (pl) m
• Thai: รัฐบุรุษ (th) (rát-tà-bù-rùt)

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Translations to be checked

• Italian: ^{(please verify)} statista (it) m, ^{(please verify)} uomo di stato m
• Malayalam: ^{(please verify)} രാഷ്ട്രതന്ത്രജ്ഞൻ (rāṣṭratantrajñaṉ)

Further reading

• statesman in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• statesman in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• statesman at OneLook Dictionary Search

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Noun

statesman

1. statesman
   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, line 8:

     and whilke we canna zei, albeit o' 'Governere,' 'Statesman,' an alike.

     and for which we have no words but of 'Governor,' 'Statesman,' &c.

References

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 114