Definitions for statesman

statesman states·man

Spelling: [steyts-muh n]
IPA: /ˈsteɪts mən/

Statesman is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 314 anagrams from letters in statesman (aaemnsstt).

Definitions for statesman

noun

  1. a person who is experienced in the art of government or versed in the administration of government affairs.
  2. a person who exhibits great wisdom and ability in directing the affairs of a government or in dealing with important public issues.

Origin of statesman

1585-95; state + 's1 + -man, modeled on steersman; compare the phrase ship of state

Examples for statesman

As compared with the statesman, he suffers the disadvantage of being alive.

A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors —to dislodge the worms.

Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian writer and statesman who changed African literature forever, has died at the age of 82.

In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record.

This dashing young Barnacle, in a word, was likely to become a statesman, and to make a figure.

“statesman and savants, builders and even priests are their servants,” intoned Time.

It was then that his great career as a European statesman really began.

In Canning he found, or rather projected, “a genius, almost a universal one, an orator, a wit, a poet, a statesman.”

And yet her call for a plebiscite smacks as much of political despair than a statesman's conviction.

They remember “RN,” as they call him, as a statesman, a hero, a peacemaker.

Word Value for statesman
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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