"spokesman" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: spokesmen [plural]
Etymology: From spoke, past participle of speak + man. Head templates: {{en-noun|spokesmen}} spokesman (plural spokesmen)
  1. One who speaks as the voice of another person or a group of people. Categories (topical): People Hypernyms: spokesperson, spox Coordinate_terms: spokesdog, spokeswoman Translations (one who speaks as the voice of a group of people): խոսնակ (xosnak) (Armenian), вәкил (vəkil) (Bashkir), прадстаўнік (pradstaŭnik) [masculine] (Belarusian), спі́кер (spíkjer) [masculine] (Belarusian), говори́тел (govorítel) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 發言人 (Chinese Mandarin), 发言人 (fāyánrén) (Chinese Mandarin), mluvčí [masculine] (Czech), talsmand [common-gender] (Danish), talskvinde [common-gender] (Danish), talsperson [common-gender] (Danish), woordvoerder [masculine] (Dutch), zegsman [masculine] (Dutch), pressiesindaja (Estonian), edustaja (Finnish), tiedottaja (Finnish), äänitorvi (Finnish), puhetorvi (Finnish), porte-parole [feminine, masculine] (French), Sprecher [masculine] (German), Wortführer [masculine] (German), דּוֹבֵר (dovér) [masculine] (Hebrew), szóvivő (Hungarian), asogwa (Igbo), portavoce [feminine, masculine] (Italian), wahakōrero (Maori), berdevk [feminine, masculine] (Northern Kurdish), talsmann [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), talsperson [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), talsmann [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), talsperson [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), rzecznik [masculine] (Polish), porta-voz [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), purtător de cuvânt [masculine] (Romanian), представи́тель (predstavítelʹ) [masculine] (Russian), спи́кер (spíker) [masculine] (Russian), портпарол [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), гласногово̀рнӣк [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), portparol [Latin, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), glasnogovòrnīk [Latin, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), hovorca [masculine] (Slovak), zástupca [masculine] (Slovak), predstavnik [masculine] (Slovene), portavoz [feminine, masculine] (Spanish), vocero [masculine] (Spanish), msemi (Swahili), talesman [common-gender] (Swedish), talesperson [common-gender] (Swedish), sözcü (Turkish), ре́чник (réčnyk) [masculine] (Ukrainian), спі́кер (spíker) [masculine] (Ukrainian)

Inflected forms

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          "code": "hy",
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          "roman": "xosnak",
          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
          "word": "խոսնակ"
        },
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          "lang": "Bashkir",
          "roman": "vəkil",
          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
          "word": "вәкил"
        },
        {
          "code": "be",
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "pradstaŭnik",
          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
          "tags": [
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          ],
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        },
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          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "spíkjer",
          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
          "tags": [
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          ],
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        },
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          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "govorítel",
          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "говори́тел"
        },
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
          "word": "發言人"
        },
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "fāyánrén",
          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
          "word": "发言人"
        },
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          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "mluvčí"
        },
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          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
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          "word": "talsmand"
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          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
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          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
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          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "woordvoerder"
        },
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          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "zegsman"
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          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
          "word": "pressiesindaja"
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
          "word": "edustaja"
        },
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
          "word": "tiedottaja"
        },
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
          "word": "äänitorvi"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
          "word": "puhetorvi"
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
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          "word": "porte-parole"
        },
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Sprecher"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Wortführer"
        },
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          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "dovér",
          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "דּוֹבֵר"
        },
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
          "word": "szóvivő"
        },
        {
          "code": "ig",
          "lang": "Igbo",
          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
          "word": "asogwa"
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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "portavoce"
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          "code": "kmr",
          "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
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          "word": "berdevk"
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          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
          "word": "wahakōrero"
        },
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          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "talsmann"
        },
        {
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "talsperson"
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          "code": "nn",
          "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "talsmann"
        },
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          "code": "nn",
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            "masculine"
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        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "rzecznik"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
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          "word": "porta-voz"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "purtător de cuvânt"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "predstavítelʹ",
          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "представи́тель"
        },
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "spíker",
          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "спи́кер"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "портпарол"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
          "tags": [
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            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "гласногово̀рнӣк"
        },
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          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
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          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
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          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "hovorca"
        },
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          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
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          "word": "zástupca"
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          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "predstavnik"
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
          "tags": [
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "portavoz"
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          "code": "es",
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          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
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          "word": "vocero"
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          "code": "sw",
          "lang": "Swahili",
          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
          "word": "msemi"
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          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
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          "word": "talesman"
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          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
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          "code": "tr",
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          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
          "word": "sözcü"
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          "roman": "réčnyk",
          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
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          "word": "ре́чник"
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          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "spíker",
          "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
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      "roman": "xosnak",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "word": "խոսնակ"
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      "lang": "Bashkir",
      "roman": "vəkil",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "word": "вәкил"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "pradstaŭnik",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "прадстаўнік"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "spíkjer",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "спі́кер"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "govorítel",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "говори́тел"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "word": "發言人"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "fāyánrén",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "word": "发言人"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mluvčí"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "talsmand"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "talskvinde"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "talsperson"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "woordvoerder"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "zegsman"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "word": "pressiesindaja"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "word": "edustaja"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "word": "tiedottaja"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "word": "äänitorvi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "word": "puhetorvi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "porte-parole"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Sprecher"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Wortführer"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "dovér",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "דּוֹבֵר"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "word": "szóvivő"
    },
    {
      "code": "ig",
      "lang": "Igbo",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "word": "asogwa"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "portavoce"
    },
    {
      "code": "kmr",
      "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "berdevk"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "word": "wahakōrero"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "talsmann"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "talsperson"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "talsmann"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "talsperson"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "rzecznik"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "porta-voz"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "purtător de cuvânt"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "predstavítelʹ",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "представи́тель"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "spíker",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "спи́кер"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "портпарол"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "гласногово̀рнӣк"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "portparol"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "glasnogovòrnīk"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hovorca"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "zástupca"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "predstavnik"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "portavoz"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vocero"
    },
    {
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "word": "msemi"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "talesman"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "talesperson"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "word": "sözcü"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "réčnyk",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ре́чник"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "spíker",
      "sense": "one who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "спі́кер"
    }
  ],
  "word": "spokesman"
}

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