foreign minister

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   a government minister for foreign relations

   Synonymssecretary of state

   Broaderminister

Questions about foreign minister

What does foreign minister mean?

foreign minister means "a government minister for foreign relations".

What is another word for foreign minister?

Close synonyms include secretary of state. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is foreign minister a common word?

foreign minister is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.