nelson mandela

1. 1.

   South African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 (born in 1918)

   SynonymsMandelaNelson Rolihlahla Mandela

   Broadernationalist leaderstatesman

Questions about nelson mandela

What does nelson mandela mean?

nelson mandela means "South African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 (born in 1918)".

What is another word for nelson mandela?

Close synonyms include Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela. 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 nelson mandela a common word?

nelson mandela 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.