is a specific kind of: pol, political leader, politician, politico.

is a broader term that covers: elder statesman | Founding Father | stateswoman.

instances of which are: Acheson, Dean Acheson, Dean Gooderham Acheson | Adenauer, Konrad Adenauer | Agrippa, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa | Alcibiades | Arafat, Yasser Arafat | Ataturk, Kemal Ataturk, Kemal Pasha, Mustafa Kemal | 1st Earl Attlee, Attlee, Clement Attlee, Clement Richard Attlee | Augustus, Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, Gaius Octavianus, Octavian | 1st Baron Verulam, Bacon, Baron Verulam, Francis Bacon, Sir Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Albans | 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, Baldwin, Stanley Baldwin | 1st Earl of Balfour, Arthur James Balfour, Balfour | Baruch, Bernard Baruch, Bernard Mannes Baruch | Begin, Menachem Begin | Ben Gurion, David Ben Gurion, David Grun | Bevin, Ernest Bevin | Bismarck, Iron Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, Prince Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck, Prince Otto von Bismarck, von Bismarck | Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, Blair, Tony Blair | Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, Boethius | Bolivar, El Libertador, Simon Bolivar | Brandt, Willy Brandt | Brezhnev, Leonid Brezhnev, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev | Brutus, Marcus Junius Brutus | Burke, Edmund Burke | Caesar, Gaius Julius Caesar, Julius Caesar | Cassius, Cassius Longinus, Gaius Cassius Longinus | Arthur Neville Chamberlain, Chamberlain, Neville Chamberlain | Chateaubriand, Francois Rene Chateaubriand, Vicomte de Chateaubriand | Chesterfield, Fourth Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope | Chiang Chung-cheng, Chiang Kai-shek | Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill, Winston Churchill, Winston S. Churchill | Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Tully | Cincinnatus, Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus | Clemenceau, Georges Clemenceau, Georges Eugene Benjamin Clemenceau | Baron Clive, Baron Clive of Plassey, Clive, Robert Clive | Cosimo de Medici, Cosimo the Elder | Cromwell, Ironsides, Oliver Cromwell | Davis, Jefferson Davis | Dayan, Moshe Dayan | Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle, Charles de Gaulle, de Gaulle, General Charles de Gaulle, General de Gaulle | Demosthenes | Deng Xiaoping, Teng Hsiao-ping, Teng Hsiaoping | de Valera, Eamon de Valera | Benjamin Disraeli, Disraeli, First Earl of Beaconsfield | Flaminius, Gaius Flaminius | Charles James Fox, Fox | Gandhi, Indira Gandhi, Indira Nehru Gandhi, Mrs. Gandhi | Gladstone, William Ewart Gladstone, William Gladstone | Gorbachev, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev | Charles Grey, Grey, Second Earl Grey | First Viscount Haldane of Cloan, Haldane, Richard Burdon Haldane, Richard Haldane | Alexander Hamilton, Hamilton | Havel, Vaclav Havel | Hindenburg, Paul Ludwig von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, Paul von Hindenburg | Ho Chi Minh, Nguyen Tat Thanh | Jinnah, Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Kalinin, Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin, Mikhail Kalinin | Kaunda, Kenneth David Kaunda, Kenneth Kaunda | Jomo Kenyata, Kenyata | Aleksandr Feodorovich Kerensky, Kerensky | Khama, Sir Seretse Khama | Khrushchev, Nikita Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev | Fumimaro Konoe, Fumimaro Konoye, Konoe, Konoye, Prince Fumimaro Konoe, Prince Fumimaro Konoye | Kruger, Oom Paul Kruger, Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger | Lorenzo de'Medici, Lorenzo the Magnificent | Machiavelli, Niccolo Machiavelli | John Major, John R. Major, John Roy Major, Major | Mandela, Nelson Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela | George Catlett Marshall, George Marshall, Marshall | Golda Meir, Meir | Klemens Metternich, Metternich, Prince Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar von Metternich | Francois Maurice Marie Mitterrand, Francois Mitterrand, Mitterrand | Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov | More, Sir Thomas More, Thomas More | Gouverneur Morris, Morris | Hosni Mubarak, Mubarak | Fridtjof Nansen, Nansen | Gamal Abdel Nasser, Nasser | Jawaharlal Nehru, Nehru | Frederick North, North, Second Earl of Guilford | Daniel Ortega, Daniel Ortega Saavedra, Ortega | Ignace Jan Paderewski, Ignace Paderewski, Paderewski | Pericles | First Earl of Chatham, Pitt, Pitt the Elder, William Pitt | Pitt, Pitt the Younger, Second Earl of Chatham, William Pitt | Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, Pompey, Pompey the Great | Colin luther Powell, Colin Powell, Powell | Putin, Vladimir Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin | Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan | Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, Duc de Richelieu, Richelieu | Charles Watson-Wentworth, Rockingham, Second Marquis of Rockingham | Anwar el-Sadat, Anwar Sadat, Sadat | Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt, Helmut Schmidt, Schmidt | Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Seneca | Ian Douglas Smith, Ian Smith, Smith | Jan Christian Smuts, Smuts | Suharto | Achmad Sukarno, Sukarno | Duc de Sully, Maxmilien de Bethune, Sully | Sun Yat-sen, Sun Yixian | Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, Talleyrand | Themistocles | Josip Broz, Marshal Tito, Tito | Getulio Dornelles Vargas, Vargas | Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, Hendrik Verwoerd, Verwoerd | Kurt Waldheim, Waldheim | Lech Walesa, Walesa | First Earl of Orford, Robert Walpole, Sir Robert Walpole, Walpole | Earl of Warwick, Kingmaker, Richard Neville, Warwick | Chaim Azriel Weizmann, Chaim Weizmann, Weizmann | Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, First Duke of Wellington, Iron Duke, Wellington | William of Wykeham, Wykeham ... show more.

derivation: diplomacy, statecraft, statesmanship | statesmanlike, statesmanly.