politician
nounEtymology
From politic + -ian.
Definitions
One engaged in politics, especially an elected or appointed government official.
- Politicians should serve the country's interest.
Specifically, one who regards elected political office as a career.
- Unlike the other candidates, I'm not a politician.
- I never wanted to be one, and as far as I'm concerned, I'm not a politician now. Am I the best man for this job? Probably not. I am, however, the President of the United States, […]
A politically active or interested person.
- Only real politicians are interested in this issue.
- You used to be such a politician. Do you remember the debates we held in Fitzroy's rooms?
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A sly or ingratiating person.
- There is a politician in every office.
- Mrs. Dimitriou blushed at the compliment. "Antonios, you are such a politician," her husband chuckled.
The neighborhood
- synonympolitician
- synonympolitico
- neighborpolitics
- neighborpolitical party
- neighborAppendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class V § 694. Director
- neighborperson
- neighborpolitard
- neighborCommunist
- neighborConservative
- neighborDemocrat
- neighborLabourite
- neighborLiberal Democrat
- neighborGreen
- neighborRepublican
Derived
antipolitician, career politician, Europolitician, geopolitician, gynotician, identity politician, machine politician, metapolitician, militician, nonpolitician, politainer, politicianese, politicianess, politicianlike, politicianly, politicianship, politicianspeak, pollie, pollutician, power politician, professional politician, realpolitician
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at politician. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at politician. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at politician
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA