statesman

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

state +‎ -s- +‎ -man, calque of French homme d'État.

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /ˈsteɪtsmən/
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NounEdit

statesman (plural statesmen)

A man who is a leader in national or international affairs.
A male political leader who promotes the public good or who is recognized for probity, leadership, or the qualities necessary to govern a state.
In the dialect of the English Lake District and nearby, a man who lives on a landed estate; a small landholder.

Related termsEdit

TranslationsEdit

man who is a leader in national or international affairs

Arabic: رَجُل دَوْلَة‎ m (rajul dawla)
Armenian: պետական գործիչ (petakan gorcičʿ)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 政治家 (zh) (zhèngzhìjiā)
Czech: státník (cs) m
Danish: statsmand c
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
Turkish: devlet adamı (tr)

political leader who promotes the public good

Finnish: valtiomies (fi)

Polish: mąż stanu (pl) m

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

Malayalam: രാഷ്ട്രതന്ത്രജ്ഞന്‍ (rāṣṭratantrajñan‍)