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Definition: Statesmanlike |
StatesmanlikeAdjective1. Marked by the qualities of or befitting a statesman; "a man of statesmanlike judgment"; "a statesmanlike solution of the present perplexities"-V.L.Parrington. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: StatesmanlikeSynonym: statesmanly (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: unstatesmanlike (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Statesmanlike |
| English words defined with "statesmanlike": statesmanly ♦ unstatesmanlike. (references) |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | I welcome Chairman Khrushchev's statesmanlike decision to stop building bases in Cuba, dismantling offensive weapons and returning them to the Soviet Union under United Nations verification. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Statesmanlike" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Statesmanlike" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 19 | 80,337 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
statesmanlike | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "statesmanlike"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | staatsmännisch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | οξυδερκήσ (clear-sighted, discriminating, far sighted, perceptive, perspicacious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | államférfihoz illő, államférfiúi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | atesmanlikestay подобающий государственному деятелю. (various references) državnički. (various references) statsmanna. (various references) có vẻ chính khách như một nh chính trị sắc sảo v thiết thực; có t i quản lý nh nước (statesmanly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "statesmanlike" (pronounced stute"smunlī'k) |
| 7 | -s m u n l ī' k | unsportsmanlike. |
| 4 | -n l ī' k | fanlike, fernlike, hornlike, moonlike, workmanlike. |
| 3 | -l ī' k | apelike, beaklike, berrylike, businesslike, catlike, childlike, computerlike, doglike, dreamlike, eellike, eyelike, ghostlike, grasslike, homelike, knifelike, ladylike, leaflike, lifelike, lookalike, mosslike, needlelike, netlike, pincerlike, plantlike, platelike, saltlike, sharklike, snakelike, starlike, stemlike, swordlike, tomblike, toothlike, warlike, winglike, wormlike. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-i-k-l-m-n-s-s-t-t" | |
-3 letters: enamelists, estaminets, mentalists, mesnalties, seamanlike, stalemates, tantalises. | |
-4 letters: alienates, alikeness, amnesties, anisettes, antimasks, astatines, enamelist, essential, estaminet, estimates, laminates, leakiness, mantelets, measliest, meatiness, melanists, melanites, mentalist, messaline, metalises, metalists, namesakes, sanitates, seatmates, silentest, smaltines, smaltites, sneakiest, stalemate, stalkiest, staminate, statesman, statesmen, steamiest, taeniases, taintless, talismans, talkiness, tantalise, tetanises. | |
-5 letters: ailments, alienate, aliments, alkanets. | |
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