Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A man who is a leader in national or international affairs.
- noun A male political leader regarded as a disinterested promoter of the public good.
- noun A man who is a respected leader in a given field.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
- noun One who occupies his own estate; a small landholder.
- noun Synonyms See
politician .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A man versed in public affairs and in the principles and art of government; especially, one eminent for political abilities.
- noun One occupied with the affairs of government, and influential in shaping its policy.
- noun Prov. Eng. A small landholder.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
man who is aleader innational orinternational affairs . - noun A male
political leader whopromotes thepublic good or who is recognized forprobity ,leadership , or the qualities necessary togovern astate . - noun In the dialect of the English Lake District and nearby, a man who lives on a landed estate.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
The Making of Arguments J. H. Gardiner
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In the sentence, _Webster, the statesman, was born in New Hampshire_, the noun _statesman_ modifies the subject _Webster_ by explaining what or which
Graded Lessons in English an Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room Brainerd Kellogg
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In the sentence, _Webster, the statesman, was born in New Hampshire_, the noun _statesman_ modifies the subject _Webster_ by explaining what or which
Graded Lessons in English an Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room Brainerd Kellogg
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In the sentence, _Webster, the statesman, was born in New Hampshire_, the noun _statesman_ modifies the subject _Webster_ by explaining what or which
Graded Lessons in English an Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room Brainerd Kellogg
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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.
Winston Churchill 1941
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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.
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The Christian Science Monitor runs an AP story that gives a little taste of what lies underneath, "Nestor Kirchner remembered as Latin American statesman":
Robert Naiman: Remembering Nestor Kirchner, South American Hero Who Defied the IMF Robert Naiman 2010
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The Christian Science Monitor runs an AP story that gives a little taste of what lies underneath, "Nestor Kirchner remembered as Latin American statesman":
Robert Naiman: Remembering Nestor Kirchner, South American Hero Who Defied the IMF Robert Naiman 2010
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The Christian Science Monitor runs an AP story that gives a little taste of what lies underneath, "Nestor Kirchner remembered as Latin American statesman":
Robert Naiman: Remembering Nestor Kirchner, South American Hero Who Defied the IMF Robert Naiman 2010
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The Christian Science Monitor runs an AP story that gives a little taste of what lies underneath, "Nestor Kirchner remembered as Latin American statesman":
Robert Naiman: Remembering Nestor Kirchner, South American Hero Who Defied the IMF Robert Naiman 2010
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