politician
English Thesaurus
1. a person active in party politics (noun.person)
| hypernym | : | leader, |
| definition | : | a person who rules or guides or inspires others (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | communist, |
| definition | : | a member of the communist party (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | demagog, demagogue, rabble-rouser, |
| definition | : | a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | democrat, |
| definition | : | a member of the Democratic Party (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | federalist, |
| definition | : | a member of a former political party in the United States that favored a strong centralized federal government (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | labourite, |
| definition | : | a member of the British Labour Party (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | mugwump, |
| definition | : | someone who bolted from the Republican Party during the U.S. presidential election of 1884 (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | noncandidate, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | boss, party boss, political boss, |
| definition | : | a leader in a political party who controls votes and dictates appointments (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | party liner, party man, |
| definition | : | a member of a political party who follows strictly the party line (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | republican, |
| definition | : | a member of the Republican Party (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | sachem, |
| definition | : | a political leader (especially of Tammany Hall) (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | socialist, |
| definition | : | a political advocate of socialism (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | standard-bearer, |
| definition | : | an outstanding leader of a political movement (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | technocrat, |
| definition | : | an advocate of technocracy (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | whig, |
| definition | : | a member of the Whig Party that existed in the United States before the American Civil War (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | astor, nancy witcher astor, viscountess astor, |
| definition | : | British politician (born in the United States) who was the first woman to sit in the British House of Commons (1879-1964) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | bradley, thomas bradley, tom bradley, |
| definition | : | United States politician who was elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles (1917-1998) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | aaron burr, burr, |
| definition | : | 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) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | clay, henry clay, the great compromiser, |
| definition | : | United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | clinton, dewitt clinton, |
| definition | : | United States politician who as governor of New York supported the project to build the Erie Canal (1769-1828) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | crockett, david crockett, davy crockett, |
| definition | : | United States frontiersman and Tennessee politician who died at the siege of the Alamo (1786-1836) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | douglas, little giant, stephen a. douglas, stephen arnold douglas, |
| definition | : | 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) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | houston, sam houston, samuel houston, |
| definition | : | 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) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | jackson, jesse jackson, jesse louis jackson, |
| definition | : | United States civil rights leader who led a national campaign against racial discrimination and ran for presidential nomination (born in 1941) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | glenda jackson, jackson, |
| definition | : | English film actress who later became a member of British Parliament (born in 1936) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | andre maginot, maginot, |
| definition | : | French politician who proposed the Maginot Line (1877-1932) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | mullah mohammed omar, mullah omar, |
| definition | : | reclusive Afghanistani politician and leader of the Taliban who imposed a strict interpretation of shariah law on Afghanistan (born in 1960) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | jeannette rankin, rankin, |
| definition | : | leader in the women's suffrage movement in Montana; the first woman to serve in the United States House of Representatives (1880-1973) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | nellie ross, nellie tayloe ross, ross, |
| definition | : | a politician in Wyoming who was the first woman governor in the United States (1876-1977) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | seward, william henry seward, |
| definition | : | 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) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | daniel webster, webster, |
| definition | : | United States politician and orator (1782-1817) (noun.person) |
2. a leader engaged in civil administration (noun.person)
| hypernym | : | leader, |
| definition | : | a person who rules or guides or inspires others (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | governor, |
| definition | : | the head of a state government (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | legislator, |
| definition | : | someone who makes or enacts laws (noun.person) |
3. a schemer who tries to gain advantage in an organization in sly or underhanded ways (noun.person)
| hypernym | : | plotter, schemer, |
| definition | : | a planner who draws up a personal scheme of action (noun.person) |
4. a person active in party politics (noun.person)
| derivation | : | politics, |
| definition | : | the profession devoted to governing and to political affairs (noun.act) |
5. a leader engaged in civil administration (noun.person)
| derivation | : | politics, |
| definition | : | the profession devoted to governing and to political affairs (noun.act) |
6. a person active in party politics (noun.person)
| derivation | : | politics, |
| definition | : | the profession devoted to governing and to political affairs (noun.act) |
7. a leader engaged in civil administration (noun.person)
| derivation | : | politics, |
| definition | : | the profession devoted to governing and to political affairs (noun.act) |
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