statesman

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsteɪtsmən/

• Audio (US):

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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

Derived terms

• elder statesman
• statesmanlike
• statesmanly
• superstatesman

Related terms

• statesmanship
• stateswoman
• statesperson

Translations

man who is a leader in national or international affairs

• Albanian: burrë shtet m
• Arabic: رَجُل دَوْلَة m (rajul dawla)
• Armenian: պետական գործիչ (petakan gorcičʻ)
• Azerbaijani: dövlət xadimi
• Belarusian: дзяржа́ўны дзе́яч m (dzjaržáwny dzjéjač)
• Bulgarian: държа́вник (bg) m (dăržávnik)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 政治家 (zh) (zhèngzhìjiā)

• Czech: státník (cs) m
• Danish: statsmand c
• Dutch: staatsman (nl) m
• Estonian: riigitegelane
• Finnish: valtiomies (fi)
• French: homme d'État (fr) m
• Georgian: სახელმწიფო მოღვაწე (saxelmc̣ipo moɣvac̣e)
• German: Staatsmann (de) m
• Hebrew: מְדִינַאי (he) m (medinái)
• Hindi: कूटनीतिज्ञ m (kūṭnītijña), स्टेट्समैन m (sṭeṭsamain)
• Hungarian: államférfi (hu)
• Indonesian: negarawan (id)
• Italian: uomo di stato m, statista (it) m or f
• Japanese: 政治家 (ja) (せいじか, seijika)
• Kazakh: мемлекеттік қайраткер (kk) (memlekettık qairatker)
• Khmer: រដ្ឋបុរស (rŏətborɑh)
• Korean: 정치가(政治家) (ko) (jeongchiga), 정치인(政治人) (ko) (jeongchiin)
• Kyrgyz: мамлекеттик ишмер (mamlekettik işmer)
• Lao: ລັດຖະບຸລຸດ (lat tha bu lut)
• Latvian: valstsvīrs m
• Lithuanian: valstybininkas m
• Macedonian: државник m (državnik)
• Malay: negarawan
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: statsmann m

  Nynorsk: statsmann m

• Persian: زمامدار (fa) (zamâmdâr), دُولَت‌مَرد (dowlat-mard), رَجُلِ سیاسی (rajol-e siyâsi)
• Polish: mąż stanu (pl) m
• Portuguese: estadista (pt) m or f
• Romanian: om de stat (ro) m
• Russian: госуда́рственный де́ятель (ru) m (gosudárstvennyj déjatelʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: др̀жа̄внӣк m

  Latin: dr̀žāvnīk (sh) m

• Slovak: štátnik m
• Slovene: državnik (sl) m
• Spanish: estadista (es)
• Swedish: statsman (sv) c
• Tagalog: palabanwa
• Tajik: давлатмард (davlatmard), давлат арбоби (davlat arbob-i), ходими давлатӣ (xodim-i davlati)
• Thai: รัฐบุรุษ (th) (rát-tà-bù-rùt)
• Turkish: devlet adamı (tr)
• Ukrainian: держа́вний дія́ч m (deržávnyj dijáč)
• Uzbek: davlat arbobi

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)} രാഷ്ട്രതന്ത്രജ്ഞന് (rāṣṭratantrajñaṉ)

Further reading

• “statesman”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “statesman”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “statesman”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstaːtsman/

Noun

statesman

1. statesman
   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 7-9:

     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 (d. 1827) (before 1828), 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, published 1867, page 114