SPOKESMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spokesman mean? 

• SPOKESMAN (noun)
  The noun SPOKESMAN has 1 sense:

1. a male spokesperson

  Familiarity information: SPOKESMAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPOKESMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A male spokesperson

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("spokesman" is a kind of...):

interpreter; representative; spokesperson; voice (an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose)

 Context examples 

Bingley was the principal spokesman, and Miss Bennet the principal object.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Colonel Dent, their spokesman, demanded "the tableau of the whole;" whereupon the curtain again descended.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Sometimes it seems to me that all the world, all life, everything, had taken up residence inside of me and was clamoring for me to be the spokesman.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

They must needs hold a council and put their two hundred thick heads together, and then there comes this fellow Aylward and another, as their spokesmen, to say that they will disband unless an Englishman of good name be set over them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

'He would not,' he said, 'stand for more than a moment between that vast assembly and the treat which lay before them. It was not for him to anticipate what Professor Summerlee, who was the spokesman of the committee, had to say to them, but it was common rumor that their expedition had been crowned by extraordinary success.'

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)