What's the difference between stateswoman and stateswomen?
Stateswoman
Definition:
(n.) A woman concerned in public affairs.
Example Sentences:
(1) I learned about how important everyone’s vote is and just how special it is to live in a country where that is available to us,” Beydoun said, her hands gesticulating like a future stateswoman.
(2) She has become a sort of elder stateswoman – she might not like the elder bit – but she’s really, really earned that position.
(3) She is undoubtedly Britain's elder stateswoman of feminism - a mantle she has been trying to shake off since The Golden Notebook was proclaimed "a feminist bible" in 1962.
(4) She has become a sort of elder stateswoman – she might not like the elder bit – but she’s earned that position David Lammy Rather than bowing out of the limelight at the age of 65, Hodge went on to fight one of the highest-profile campaigns of the 2010 election – the battle for Barking – doubling her majority as she defeated the BNP’s Nick Griffin in the face of fears that he could win.
Stateswomen
Definition:
(pl. ) of Stateswoman
Example Sentences:
(1) They include some of her greatest artists, scientists, industrialists and statesmen and stateswomen; most of her older aristocracy; and her present Queen.
(2) Westminster Hall has long been reserved for those statesmen and stateswomen who have made a lasting and positive difference in the world.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Overcrowding at refugee campsite near Greek-Macedonian border – video The EU-Turkey summit must be about courage and the responsibility of stateswomen and statesmen.
(4) While in Britain we tend to like our politicians to be statesmen and stateswomen first, and people a long way second, the Danes hold more to the Scandinavian ideal that politicians are just like the rest of us.