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jefe de estado

Definitions of jefe de estado
  1. noun
    the chief public representative of a country who may also be the head of government
    synonyms: mandatario
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    examples:
    Mesías
    the awaited king of the Jews; the promised and expected deliverer of the Jewish people
    Atila
    king of the Huns; the most successful barbarian invader of the Roman Empire (406-453)
    Catalina II La Grande
    empress of Russia who greatly increased the territory of the empire (1729-1796)
    Carlos I El Grande
    king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor; conqueror of the Lombards and Saxons (742-814)
    Ulysses Grant
    18th President of the United States; commander of the Union armies in the American Civil War (1822-1885)
    Abraham Lincoln
    16th President of the United States; saved the Union during the American Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865)
    Napoleón Bonaparte
    French general who became emperor of the French (1769-1821)
    Theodore Roosevelt
    26th President of the United States; hero of the Spanish-American War; Panama Canal was built during his administration
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt
    32nd President of the United States; elected four times; instituted New Deal to counter the Great Depression and led country during World War II (1882-1945)
    Victoria
    queen of Great Britain and Ireland and empress of India from 1837 to 1901; the last Hanoverian ruler of England (1819-1901)
    George Washington
    1st President of the United States; commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution (1732-1799)
    types:
    canciller, primer ministro
    the person who is head of state (in several countries)
    después del mediodía, premier
    the person who holds the position of head of the government in the United Kingdom
    presidente
    the chief executive of a republic
    presidente
    the person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government
    soberano
    a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right
    ex presidente
    a former president
    czar, zar
    a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917)
    emperador
    the male ruler of an empire
    monarca, rey
    a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom
    cha, sah, sha, shah
    title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran
    type of:
    representante
    a person who represents others
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