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solon::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | national leader, statesman |
| Type of | politico, politician, political leader, pol |
| Has types | founding father, stateswoman, elder statesman |
Examples of solon
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Solon has similar deals in the works, he says, but he declines to provide details.
From the online.wsj.com
Solon previously worked as a State Department political officer in Central America.
From the nytimes.com
Solon became only the second woman, after Jenny Eclair, to win the Perrier in 2005.
From the independent.co.uk
Solon admits that the first act has been added to fulfil venues'interval requirements.
From the guardian.co.uk
Not that special food means much to the ex-solon, unless he could score some rum cake.
From the bostonherald.com
Solon was the first of the Athenian poets whose work has survived to the present day.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Solon Gershman is a Clayton-based commercial real estate brokerage and management firm.
From the stltoday.com
I ran into that ex-solon during the New Hampshire primary last winter.
From the bostonherald.com
Solon created a mixed timocratic and democratic system of institutions.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Statesman: a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs
- Solon (Greek: u03A3u03CCu03BBu03C9u03BD; c.u2009638u00A0u2013 c.u2009558u00A0BC) was an Athenian statesman, lawmaker, and poet. He is remembered particularly for his efforts to legislate against political, economic, and moral decline in archaic Athens. His reforms failed in the short term, yet he is often credited with having laid the foundations for Athenian democracy...
- Solon is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and is an affluent suburb of Cleveland in the Northeast Ohio Region, the 14th largest Combined Statistical Area in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 21,802. ...
- (solonic) Wise; Legislative
- Athenian statesman, lawgiver, and poet, celebrated in ancient history as one of the seven sages of Greece. In 594 he became Archon (a chief magistrate), q.v., and was given broad powers to correct the imbalance between the rich and the poor that was causing great social unrest. ...
- Athenian reformer of the 6th century; established laws that eased burden of debt on farmers, forbade enslavement for debt. (p. 129)
- An informal name for a boxing commissioner originating from a man named Solon who was known as the lawmaker of Athens.
- An authority; someone in the know; from the ancient Greek wise man, Solon; "Solons say the deal is likely to go down by the end of the week."
- Athenian lawgiver.^1
