Synonyms:
statesman, solon, national_leader
Meaning: a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs
Usage examples
"Lord Herriston, the great Anglo-Indian statesman.
The statesman slipped in for an instant between the trifler coming and the trifler gone.
Even then his friends saw the germs of the statesman in the lank, homely, crack-voiced hobbledehoy.
This is the business man's day; it used to be the soldier's day and the statesman's day, but this is OURS!
Nor was it an unusual thing for a statesman who had retired from political scenes to assume again a place under another government.
Now and then I am asked as to "what books a statesman should read," and my answer is, poetry and novels--including short stories under the head of novels.
In the year 1920, the student and the statesman saw many indications that the social, financial and industrial troubles that had vexed the United States of America for so long a time were about to culminate in civil war.
Not a single ruler, patriot, statesman, demagogue, artist or author, in short, no man or woman that lived before the dawn of the modern period, has been instrumental in the making of Egypt or the Egyptians what they now are.
General Grant, looking at this grave political situation with the eye of a statesman, decided, as a soldier, that under no circumstances would he withdraw the army, but that, whatever happened, he would "press forward to a decisive victory."
Don Jose Avellanos, their neighbour across the street, a statesman, a poet, a man of culture, who had represented his country at several European Courts (and had suffered untold indignities as a state prisoner in the time of the tyrant Guzman Bento), used to declare in Dona Emilia's drawing-room that Carlos had all the English qualities of character with a truly patriotic heart.