Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun mandela

1 sense of mandela

Sense 1
Mandela, Nelson Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela -- (South African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 (born in 1918))
       INSTANCE OF=> nationalist leader -- (the leader of a nationalist movement)
       INSTANCE OF=> statesman, solon, national leader -- (a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs)