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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
statesman /ˈsteɪtsmən/ (or stateswoman)

▶noun (pl. statesmen or stateswomen) a skilled, experienced, and respected political leader or figure.

– derivatives
statesmanlike adjective,
statesmanship noun.

– origin C16: from state's man, translating Fr. homme d'état.

'statesman' also found in these Oxford entries:

Blairism - Caesar - chateaubriand - Churchillian - elder statesman - Franklin stove - Gaullism - Gladstone bag - Julian - July - Machiavellian - Maecenas - molly - Molotov cocktail - Periclean - Rhodes Scholarship

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