| Library / English Dictionary |
POLITICAL LEADER
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person active in party politics
Synonyms:
pol; political leader; politician; politico
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("political leader" is a kind of...):
leader (a person who rules or guides or inspires others)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "political leader"):
Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin; Grigori Potemkin; Grigori Potyokin; Potemkin; Potyokin (a Russian officer and politician who was a favorite of Catherine II and in 1762 helped her to seize power; when she visited the Crimea in 1787 he gave the order for sham villages to be built (1739-1791))
Whig (a member of the Whig Party that existed in the United States before the American Civil War)
technocrat (an advocate of technocracy)
national leader; solon; statesman (a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs)
standard-bearer (an outstanding leader of a political movement)
socialist (a political advocate of socialism)
sachem (a political leader (especially of Tammany Hall))
Republican (a member of the Republican Party)
party liner; party man (a member of a political party who follows strictly the party line)
boss; party boss; political boss (a leader in a political party who controls votes and dictates appointments)
noncandidate (someone who has announced they are not a candidate; especially a politician who has announced that he or she is not a candidate for some political office)
Mugwump (someone who bolted from the Republican Party during the U.S. presidential election of 1884)
hack; machine politician; political hack; ward-heeler (a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends)
Labourite (a member of the British Labour Party)
Federalist (a member of a former political party in the United States that favored a strong centralized federal government)
Democrat (a member of the Democratic Party)
demagog; demagogue; rabble-rouser (a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices)
Communist (a member of the communist party)
campaigner; candidate; nominee (a politician who is running for public office)
Instance hyponyms:
Jackson; Jesse Jackson; Jesse Louis Jackson (United States civil rights leader who led a national campaign against racial discrimination and ran for presidential nomination (born in 1941))
Glenda Jackson; Jackson (English film actress who later became a member of British Parliament (born in 1936))
Andre Maginot; Maginot (French politician who proposed the Maginot Line (1877-1932))
Joseph McCarthy; Joseph Raymond McCarthy; McCarthy (United States politician who unscrupulously accused many citizens of being Communists (1908-1957))
Daniel Patrick Moynihan; Moynihan (United States politician and educator (1927-2003))
Mullah Mohammed Omar; Mullah Omar (reclusive Afghanistani politician and leader of the Taliban who imposed a strict interpretation of shariah law on Afghanistan (born in 1960))
Peel; Robert Peel; Sir Robert Peel (British politician (1788-1850))
Jeannette Rankin; Rankin (leader in the women's suffrage movement in Montana; the first woman to serve in the United States House of Representatives (1880-1973))
Nellie Ross; Nellie Tayloe Ross; Ross (a politician in Wyoming who was the first woman governor in the United States (1876-1977))
Seward; William Henry Seward (United States politician who as Secretary of State in 1867 arranged for the purchase of Alaska from Russia (known at the time as Seward's Folly) (1801-1872))
Daniel Webster; Webster (United States politician and orator (1782-1817))
Houston; Sam Houston; Samuel Houston (United States politician and military leader who fought to gain independence for Texas from Mexico and to make it a part of the United States (1793-1863))
Douglas; Little Giant; Stephen A. Douglas; Stephen Arnold Douglas (United States politician who proposed that individual territories be allowed to decide whether they would have slavery; he engaged in a famous series of debates with Abraham Lincoln (1813-1861))
Crockett; David Crockett; Davy Crockett (United States frontiersman and Tennessee politician who died at the siege of the Alamo (1786-1836))
Clinton; DeWitt Clinton (United States politician who as governor of New York supported the project to build the Erie Canal (1769-1828))
Clay; Henry Clay; the Great Compromiser (United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852))
Charles Joseph Clark; Clark; Joe Clark (Canadian politician who served as prime minister (1939-))
Chase; Salmon P. Chase; Salmon Portland Chase (United States politician and jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1808-1873))
Aaron Burr; Burr (United States politician who served as vice president under Jefferson; he mortally wounded his political rival Alexander Hamilton in a duel and fled south (1756-1836))
Boy Orator of the Platte; Bryan; Great Commoner; William Jennings Bryan (United States lawyer and politician who advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school (1860-1925))
Bradley; Thomas Bradley; Tom Bradley (United States politician who was elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles (1917-1998))
1st Baron Beaverbrook; Beaverbrook; William Maxwell Aitken (British newspaper publisher and politician (born in Canada); confidant of Winston Churchill (1879-1964))
Alben Barkley; Alben William Barkley; Barkley (United States politician and lawyer; vice president of the United States (1877-1956))
Astor; Nancy Witcher Astor; Viscountess Astor (British politician (born in the United States) who was the first woman to sit in the British House of Commons (1879-1964))
