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Elder statesman   /ˈɛldər stˈeɪtsmən/   Listen
Elder statesman

noun
1.
Any influential person whose advice is highly respected.
2.
An elderly statesman whose advice is sought be government leaders.





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"Elder statesman" Quotes from Famous Books



... offered by the Prussians. The two leaders of the Assembly were Thiers and Gambetta,—the one in favor of peace, the other of prolonging the war. We can see now how much wiser were the views of the elder statesman than those of the younger; but we see also what a bitter pang Gambetta's patriotic spirit must have suffered by the ...
— France in the Nineteenth Century • Elizabeth Latimer


Words linked to "Elder statesman" :   personage, statesman, important person, influential person, solon, national leader


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