Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A man who is a leader in national or international affairs.
- n. A male political leader regarded as a disinterested promoter of the public good.
- n. A man who is a respected leader in a given field: "a mature statesman of American letters” ( Toby Thompson).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A man who is versed in the art of government, and exhibits conspicuous ability and sagacity in the direction and management of public affairs; a politician in the highest sense of the term.
- n. One who occupies his own estate; a small landholder.
- n. Synonyms See politician.
Wiktionary
- n. A man who is a leader in national or international affairs.
- n. A male political leader who promotes the public good or who is recognized for probity, leadership, or the qualities necessary to govern a state.
- n. In the dialect of the English Lake District and nearby, a man who lives on a landed estate.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A man versed in public affairs and in the principles and art of government; especially, one eminent for political abilities.
- n. One occupied with the affairs of government, and influential in shaping its policy.
- n. Prov. Eng. A small landholder.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs
Etymologies
- Calque of French homme d'état, state's + -man (Wiktionary)
Examples
“In the sentence, _Webster, the statesman, was born in New Hampshire_, the noun _statesman_ modifies the subject _Webster_ by explaining what or which”
“Daniel Webster was a great statesman, Therefore Daniel Webster was farsighted_, sounds simple; but two generations have disagreed on the question whether Webster was a great statesman; and both _great statesman_ and _farsighted_ are such vague and inclusive terms that one would either accept a general principle of which they are terms as a harmless truism, or else balk at being asked to grant a proposition which might have unexpected meanings thrust into it.”
“When an American publisher asked me to write a book about Winston Churchill the man-not the statesmanfor the statesman is his own best biographer-I was faced with the problem of how to make this incredibly gifted man credible to the reader.”
“History has very little approval for planned economies, and pehaps, if you ask a, definition of the word statesman from the voice of history, it would be this, that he is one who wisely administers the emergencies that arise from time to time, because, if he handles each emergency wisely, he will find he has built well for the future.”
“The Christian Science Monitor runs an AP story that gives a little taste of what lies underneath, "Nestor Kirchner remembered as Latin American statesman":”
“A statesman is not the same thing as a corporate baron.”
“Bismarck, who unified Germany a century before, said that the sign of a statesman is to recognize Fate as she rushes past, so as to grab on to her cloak.”
The Huffington Post: Robert B. Zoellick: Lessons of German Unification
“A statesman is someone who can work with others toward the common good.”
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“To get into a talk with a Japanese intellectual or statesman is sooner or later to ponder the effects of World War II.”
“[…] Would it not, considering the importance of these two nations for the cause of peace, be useful to promote as candidates for the Nobel Prize a leading statesman from the Soviet Union as well as a leading statesman from the United States?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘statesman’.
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POL - people in power
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Words related to knowledge
Words that relate to learning, knowing, being enlightened...
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EU - Eurovoc - politics
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INTERP - sexist language
Problematic and recommended terms according to the EP's guide on gender neutral language use
usher, mayor, head, chair, staff, nurse, actor, gender-neutral la..., biased, discriminatory, demeaning, political correct... and 103 more...
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Unneutered
These politically incorrect words for people contain the element 'man', 'son', or 'boy'.
parson, person, layman, businessman, clergyman, chairman, cameraman, craftsman, craftsmanship, fireman, fisherman, gunman and 50 more...
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Amalgamations
Words that have been smashed together.
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Man
Everything that contains a man in it
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Masthead Staples
Words from newspaper names/titles. Not the place names or titles of specific publications, just the reusable bits.
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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newspaper names
Feel free to combine these in any way to create your own newspaper. Use lots of hyphens! (And yes, these are all used at real newspapers.)
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The Wordie Times Courier Life Bulleti...
Newspaper names.
times, courier, globe, bugle, chronicle, gazette, herald, ledger, sentinel, tribune, digest, news and 46 more...
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