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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
statesman
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
elder statesman
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
elder
▪ The county's elder statesmen were collectively in good nick, both off the court and when hitting it on it.
▪ The installation of the elder statesman Itó Hirobumi as resident 1905-9 marked the significance of the post.
▪ Now an elder statesman, ambition frustrated but perforce sated, he is positioned to tell a riveting story.
▪ 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.
▪ In his latter years he took little day-to-day interest in racing, but was seen as an elder statesman of the turf.
great
▪ Some are great warriors and statesmen.
▪ Abroad they must be seen as great statesmen anxious to build peacemaking bridges between East and West.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ If it had, he would not have been treated as a statesman but as an outcast.
▪ In Washington, statesmen and bureaucrats come and go.
▪ Some are great warriors and statesmen.
▪ The county's elder statesmen were collectively in good nick, both off the court and when hitting it on it.
▪ The historical record is thin for most of the other black statesman as well.
▪ The would-be statesman is now an aspirant escapologist.
▪ Unlike his father, Richard was no statesman.
▪ Will he be remembered as a statesman in his final days, or just another bought-and-paid-for hunk of political meat?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Statesman

Statesman \States"man\ (-man), n.; pl. Statesmen (-men).

  1. A man versed in public affairs and in the principles and art of government; especially, one eminent for political abilities.

    The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light there is shed upon them.
    --Moore.

  2. One occupied with the affairs of government, and influential in shaping its policy.

  3. A small landholder. [Prov. Eng.]
    --Halliwell.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
statesman

1590s, after French homme d'état; see state (n.1) + man (n.). Related: Statesmanly; statesmanship. Stateswoman attested from c.1600.\n

Wiktionary
statesman

n. 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 In the dialect of the English wikipedia:Lake District and nearby, a man who lives on a landed estate.

WordNet
statesman

n. a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs [syn: solon, national leader]

Wikipedia
Statesman (dialogue)

The Statesman (, Politikos; Latin: Politicus), also known by its Latin title, Politicus, is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato. The text describes a conversation among Socrates, the mathematician Theodorus, another person named Socrates (referred to as "Young Socrates"), and an unnamed philosopher from Elea referred to as "the Stranger" (, xénos). It is ostensibly an attempt to arrive at a definition of "statesman," as opposed to " sophist" or " philosopher" and is presented as following the action of the Sophist.

According to John M. Cooper, the dialogue's intention was to clarify that to rule or have political power called for a specialized knowledge. The statesman was one who possesses this special knowledge of how to rule justly and well and to have the best interests of the citizens at heart. It is presented that politics should be run by this knowledge, or gnosis. This claim runs counter to those who, the Stranger points out, actually did rule. Those that rule merely give the appearance of such knowledge, but in the end are really sophists or imitators. For, as the Stranger maintains, a sophist is one who does not know the right thing to do, but only appears to others as someone who does. The Stranger's ideal of how one arrives at this knowledge of power is through social divisions. The visitor takes great pains to be very specific about where and why the divisions are needed in order to properly rule the citizenry.

Statesman

A statesman or stateswoman is usually a politician, diplomat or other notable public figure who has had a long and respected career at the national or international level.

Statesman or Statesmen may also refer to:

Statesman (automobile)

Statesman was an automotive marque created in 1971 by Holden and sold in Australasia. Statesman vehicles were sold through Holden dealerships, and were initially based on the mainstream Holden HQ station wagon platform, thereby providing more interior room and generally more luxurious features than their Holden sedan siblings. Production ceased with the last of the WB series cars in 1984.

GM Holden re-introduced the range in 1990 with two long-wheelbase sedans; however, the cars were no longer marketed as Statesman by brand name, but instead as the Holden Statesman and the Holden Caprice. In September 2010 with the "Series II" updating of the WM series, use of the long-serving Statesman name was discontinued. Holden's long wheelbase contenders are now branded as Holden Caprice and Holden Caprice V.

Usage examples of "statesman".

In order not to compromise the influence of his family in the arrondissement of Arcis, that old statesman would doubtless propose for candidate some young man who could be induced to accept an official function and then yield his place to Charles Keller,--a parliamentary arrangement which renders the elect of the people subject to re-election.

Windham, that his important occupations as an active statesman did not prevent him from paying assiduous respect to the dying Sage whom he revered, Mr.

The second is the formation of nationalist, neutralist regimes by such brilliant statesmen as Marshal Jozef Broz Tito of Yugoslavia, Nehru of India, Field Marshal Ayub Khan of Pakistan, General Ibrahim Abboud of the Sudan, Sekou Toure of Guinea, Sukarno of Indonesia, Nkruniah of Ghana, and others.

The ponderous volumes of the Codes and Pandects would furnish ample materials for a minute inquiry into the system of provincial government, as in the space of six centuries it was approved by the wisdom of the Roman statesmen and lawyers.

Before the rapid increase of population had forced governments to study political economy and to investigate the means of subsisting a people, statesmen had contented themselves by attributing to political causes these predial disturbances, and by recommending for them political remedies.

Once Hitler was embroiled with Russia, this happy state might have been almost indefinitely prolonged with ever-growing benefits, and Mussolini might have stood forth in the peace or in the closing year of the war as the wisest statesman the sunny peninsula and its industrious and prolific people had known.

It was not until thirty years after that it attained its full development in the annunciations of sectionists rather than statesmen.

Honorius, accompanied by a feeble train of statesmen and eunuchs, hastily retreated towards the Alps, with a design of securing his person in the city of Arles, which had often been the royal residence of his predecessors.

Is there sorra a statesman among ye all can give a poor old Phoenix beauty a house where she may die in peace?

If we have but few young statesmen, it is because the old stagers are so fond of the rattle of their harness.

On the contrary, it was apparent that Northern statesmen, confident in the exercise of intellectual resources, relied on the intelligence and reason of their auditors and constituents, and seldom resorted to that species of oratory which was employed by their adversaries, and which may be called in a manner strategetic, when logical accuracy was likely to meet with more satisfactory and more permanent success.

Moving from the Deep South to the exhilarating freedom of Reconstruction Washington, with its thriving black citizenry of statesmen, professionals, and strivers of every persuasion, Cindy experiences firsthand the promise of the new era at its dizzying peak, just before it begins to slip away.

Life and property were both swallowed up, leaving behind a deep-seated sense of enormous wrong, as yet unatoned and even unacknowledged, which is one of the chief factors in the problem now presented to the statesmen of both countries.

Although as bitter and unconciliatory as any of his colleagues in his treatment of the Southern statesmen on the floor of the Senate, he always manifested the utmost good temper toward them in social intercourse, and was frequently seen, after a sharp and irritating episode in debate, laughing and talking with Green or Benjamin in the most cheerful manner imaginable.

If they found these new States fiercely anti-American and extremely unprogressive, they would experience that aggravation of their difficulties with which our statesmen have had to deal.