POLITICAL LEADER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does political leader mean? 

• POLITICAL LEADER (noun)
  The noun POLITICAL LEADER has 1 sense:

1. a person active in party politics

  Familiarity information: POLITICAL LEADER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POLITICAL LEADER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person active in party politics

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

pol; political leader; politician; politico

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"):

Communist (a member of the communist party)

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))

campaigner; candidate; nominee (a politician who is running for public office)

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)

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)

party liner; party man (a member of a political party who follows strictly the party line)

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))

Daniel Webster; Webster (United States politician and orator (1782-1817))

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))

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))