spokeswoman

English

Etymology

From spoke (“past participle of speak”) +‎ -s- +‎ woman.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

spokeswoman (plural spokeswomen)

1. A woman who speaks as the voice of a group of people.
   • 2009 January 28, Brooks Barnes, “Sweet Deal to Promote Tweeny-Bop Girl Group”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Topps […] has signed the Clique Girlz as commercial spokeswomen for Baby Bottle Pop, one of the Top 10 nonchocolate candy brands.

   • 2020 July 1, Richard Clinnick, “Network News: '165' runs through points and into path of LU service”, in Rail, page 20:

     A Chiltern spokeswoman told RAIL: "We have an excellent safety record and are working with the Rail Accident Investigation Branch to understand the causes of this incident."

Synonyms

• (woman who speaks as the voice of a group of people): prolocutress (rare), prolocutrix (obsolete)

Translations

woman who speaks as the voice of a group of people

• Belarusian: прадстаўні́ца f (pradstaŭníca), спі́керка f (spíkjerka)
• Bulgarian: представи́телка f (predstavítelka), говори́телка f (govorítelka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 女性發言人 / 女性发言人 (nǚxìng fāyánrén)

• Czech: zástupkyně f
• Danish: talskvinde c
• Dutch: woordvoerster (nl) f, zegsvrouw (nl) f
• Esperanto: proparolantino
• Finnish: edustaja (fi), tiedottaja (fi)
• French: porte-parole (fr) m or f by sense
• German: Sprecherin (de) f, Wortführer (de) f
• Hungarian: szóvivőnő
• Italian: portavoce (it) m or f by sense
• Macedonian: претставничка f (pretstavnička), говорничка f (govornička), гласноговорничка f (glasnogovornička)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: talskvinne m or f

• Polish: rzeczniczka (pl) f
• Romanian: purtătoare de cuvânt f
• Russian: представи́тельница (ru) f (predstavítelʹnica)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: портпаролка f, гласногово̀рница f

  Latin: portparolka f, glasnogovòrnica (sh) f

• Slovak: hovorkyňa f, zástupkyňa f
• Slovene: predstavnica f
• Swedish: taleskvinna (sv) c
• Turkish: sözcü (tr) (male or female)
• Ukrainian: ре́чниця f (réčnycja), представни́ця (uk) f (predstavnýcja), спі́керка (uk) f (spíkerka)

See also

• spokesdog
• spokesman
• spokesperson