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/pˌɑlətˈɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Politician n.

One versed or experienced in the science of government; one devoted to politics; a statesman. "While empiric politicians use deceit."

One primarily devoted to his own advancement in public office, or to the success of a political party; used in a depreciatory sense; one addicted or attached to politics as managed by parties (see Politics, 2); a schemer; an intriguer; as, a mere politician. "Like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not." "The politician... ready to do anything that he apprehends for his advantage."

adjective

Politician adj. Cunning; using artifice; politic; artful. "Ill-meaning politician lords."

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Etymology of 'Politician'

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"Politician" Quotes from Famous Books

... conscience. There was no appeal from his verdict; but his judgment-seat was a revolving chair from which he could view the same act at various angles. His influence was acknowledged not only by his flock, but by the policeman at the corner, the "bar-keep'" in the dive, the ward politician in the corner grocery. The general verdict of Dunstable was that the Point would have been hell without the priest. It was perhaps not precisely heaven with him; but such light of the upper sky as pierced its murky atmosphere was reflected from Don Egidio's countenance. It is hardly possible for ...

— Crucial Instances • Edith Wharton

... criticism, however hasty and unjust. The working man of to-day reads, talks, has general ideas and a sense of the round world; he is far nearer to the ruler of to-day in knowledge and intellectual range than he is to the working man of fifty years ago. The politician or business magnate of to-day is no better educated and very little better informed than his equals were fifty years ago. The chief difference is golf. The working man questions a thousand things his father accepted as in the very nature of the world, ...

— An Englishman Looks at the World • H. G. Wells

... true," answered the little Wizard; "therefore it will give me pleasure to explain my connection with your country. In the first place, I must tell you that I was born in Omaha, and my father, who was a politician, named me Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkle Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs, Diggs being the last name because he could think of no more to go before it. Taken altogether, it was a dreadfully long name to weigh down a poor innocent child, and ...

— Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz • L. Frank Baum.

... Charlemagne as a warrior and a politician having thus been exhibited, it remains to say a few words about his intellectual energy. For that is by no means the least original or least grand feature of his character ...

— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume I. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot

... of the prerogatives of the country parson, or of the schoolmaster, or of the village doctor; and although the latter is a testy politician of the opposite party, it does not all impair the Squire's faith in his calomel; he suffers all his Radicalism with the same equanimity that he suffers ...

— Dream Life - A Fable Of The Seasons • Donald G. Mitchell

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