head of state

Questions about head of state

What does head of state mean?

head of state means "the chief public representative of a country who may also be the head of government".

What is another word for head of state?

Close synonyms include chief 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 head of state a common word?

head of state 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.