statesman
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++states·man /ˈsteɪtsmən/ ●○○ noun (plural statesmen /-mən/) [countable] PGOPOLITICSa political or government leader, especially one who is respected as being wise and fair 政治家 a respected elder statesman 一位受人尊敬的政界元老 —statesmanship noun [uncountable]
Examples from the Corpus
statesman• Will he be remembered as a statesman in his final days, or just another bought-and-paid-for hunk of political meat?• If it had, he would not have been treated as a statesman but as an outcast.• Some are great warriors and statesmen.• The would-be statesman is now an aspirant escapologist.• The historical record is thin for most of the other black statesman as well.• The county's elder statesmen were collectively in good nick, both off the court and when hitting it on it.• Unlike his father, Richard was no statesman.• In Washington, statesmen and bureaucrats come and go.elder statesman• In his latter years he took little day-to-day interest in racing, but was seen as an elder statesman of the turf.• These opportunities included being a member of a sixteenth-century religious order, an elder statesman and a doctor.• He was knighted in 1949, then slipped easily into the role of cricketing elder statesman.• Durán, projecting the image of elder statesman, was expected to attract votes from the left in the run-off election.• The installation of the elder statesman Itó Hirobumi as resident 1905-9 marked the significance of the post.From Longman Business Dictionarystatesmanstates‧man /ˈsteɪtsmən/ noun (plural statesmen /-mən/) [countable] a political or government leader, especially one who is respected as being wise, honourable, and fairHe had an impressive record as a military man and a statesman. —statesmanlike adjectivehis statesmanlike performance in dealing with the crisis —statesmanship noun [uncountable]an act of international statesmanshipstates·man nounChineseSyllable
leader, Corpus who government respected political is a one as especially or Business
statesman
states‧man /ˈsteɪtsmən/
noun (plural statesmen /-mən/) [countable]
a political or government leader, especially one who is respected as being wise and fair:
a respected elder statesman
—statesmanship noun [uncountable]
▪ politician someone who works in politics, especially an elected member of the government: senior politicians
▪statesman a political or government leader, especially one who is well-respected: a respected elder statesman | great statesmen like Roosevelt and Churchill | He would later describe the king as ‘one of the most brilliant statesmen I have ever been privileged to meet’.
▪MP/Member of Parliament in Britain, someone who has been elected to a parliament to represent people from a particular area of the country: Ken Newton, MP
▪congressman a man who is a member of a congress, especially the US House of Representatives: a Republican congressman
▪congresswoman a woman who is a member of a congress, especially the US House of Representatives: Mrs McKinney was the state’s first black congresswoman.
▪senator a member of the senate, especially in the US: Senator Clinton
▪representative in the US, a member of the House of Representatives: Democratic Representatives
▪mayor someone who has been elected to lead the government of a town or city: Boris Johnson was elected Mayor of London. | the former New York mayor, Rudy Giuliani
▪spin doctor someone who is used by a political party to influence people’s opinions by cleverly controlling what is reported in the news: The party spin doctors would like us to believe that the government is committed to improving the environment.
states‧man /ˈsteɪtsmən/
noun (plural statesmen /-mən/) [countable]a political or government leader, especially one who is respected as being wise and fair:
—statesmanship noun [uncountable]
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