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HEAD OF STATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does head of state mean? 

HEAD OF STATE (noun)
  The noun HEAD OF STATE has 1 sense:

1. the chief public representative of a country who may also be the head of governmentplay

  Familiarity information: HEAD OF STATE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HEAD OF STATE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The chief public representative of a country who may also be the head of government

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

chief of state; head of state

Hypernyms ("head of state" is a kind of...):

representative (a person who represents others)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "head of state"):

chancellor; premier; prime minister (the person who is head of government (in several countries))

PM; premier; Prime Minister (the person who holds the position of head of the government in the United Kingdom)

president (the chief executive of a republic)

Chief Executive; President; President of the United States; United States President (the person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government)

crowned head; monarch; sovereign (a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right)


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