"spokeswoman" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-spokeswoman.wav [Southern-England] Forms: spokeswomen [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|spokeswomen}} spokeswoman (plural spokeswomen)
  1. A woman who speaks as the voice of a group of people. Categories (topical): Female people Synonyms (woman who speaks as the voice of a group of people): prolocutress [rare], prolocutrix [obsolete] Related terms: spokesdog, spokesman, spokesperson Translations (woman who speaks as the voice of a group of people): прадстаўні́ца (pradstaŭníca) [feminine] (Belarusian), спі́керка (spíkjerka) [feminine] (Belarusian), представи́телка (predstavítelka) [feminine] (Bulgarian), говори́телка (govorítelka) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 女性發言人 (Chinese Mandarin), 女性发言人 (nǚxìng fāyánrén) (Chinese Mandarin), zástupkyně [feminine] (Czech), talskvinde [common-gender] (Danish), woordvoerster [feminine] (Dutch), zegsvrouw [feminine] (Dutch), proparolantino (Esperanto), edustaja (Finnish), tiedottaja (Finnish), porte-parole [by-personal-gender, feminine, masculine] (French), Sprecherin [feminine] (German), Wortführer [feminine] (German), szóvivőnő (Hungarian), portavoce [by-personal-gender, feminine, masculine] (Italian), претставничка (pretstavnička) [feminine] (Macedonian), говорничка (govornička) [feminine] (Macedonian), гласноговорничка (glasnogovornička) [feminine] (Macedonian), talskvinne [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), rzeczniczka [feminine] (Polish), purtătoare de cuvânt [feminine] (Romanian), представи́тельница (predstavítelʹnica) [feminine] (Russian), портпаролка [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), гласногово̀рница [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), portparolka [Latin, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), glasnogovòrnica [Latin, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), hovorkyňa [feminine] (Slovak), zástupkyňa [feminine] (Slovak), predstavnica [feminine] (Slovene), taleskvinna [common-gender] (Swedish), sözcü [feminine, masculine] (Turkish), ре́чниця (réčnycja) [feminine] (Ukrainian), представни́ця (predstavnýcja) [feminine] (Ukrainian), спі́керка (spíkerka) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-spokeswoman-en-noun-fwyCAGGg Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "sense": "woman who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
          "tags": [
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          ],
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        },
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          "code": "eo",
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          "code": "fi",
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          "sense": "woman who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
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            "masculine"
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            "masculine"
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          "sense": "woman who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
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            "feminine"
          ],
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        },
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          "code": "ro",
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            "feminine"
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          "code": "sk",
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          "sense": "woman who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
          "tags": [
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          ],
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          "code": "sk",
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          ],
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      "sense": "woman who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
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      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "woman who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
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        "masculine"
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      "word": "porte-parole"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "woman who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
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      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "woman who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
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      "lang": "Hungarian",
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      "roman": "govornička",
      "sense": "woman who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
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      "sense": "woman who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
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        "feminine"
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      "sense": "woman who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
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        "feminine",
        "masculine"
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      "sense": "woman who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
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      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "woman who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "predstavítelʹnica",
      "sense": "woman who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "представи́тельница"
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      "code": "sh",
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      "sense": "woman who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "гласногово̀рница"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "woman who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "portparolka"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "woman who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "glasnogovòrnica"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "woman who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "hovorkyňa"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "woman who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "zástupkyňa"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "woman who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "predstavnica"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "woman who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "taleskvinna"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "woman who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sözcü"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "réčnycja",
      "sense": "woman who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ре́чниця"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "predstavnýcja",
      "sense": "woman who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "представни́ця"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "spíkerka",
      "sense": "woman who speaks as the voice of a group of people",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "спі́керка"
    }
  ],
  "word": "spokeswoman"
}

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