0 a respected leader, often one who no longer has an active job, who is thought of as having good advice to give: --
1 an older person who is respected and asked for advice because of his or her past experience: --
He is one of basketball’s elder statesmen.
He became an elder statesman and worldwide conference speaker from his retirement until his death.
I believe that in retrospect he will regret his speech as being unworthy of one whom we all like to look on as an elder statesman in our agricultural debates.
He has become an elder statesman headbanger.
He became an elder statesman in the high sense of the term.
And now he returns to this country as an elder statesman and gives us the result of his experiences.
No one can say that this elder statesman wishes anything but well to both our countries.
No one expects him to play the part of an elder statesman.
It is something of an elder statesman or father figure.
