Word.ws English Dictionary

Davos Man

Davos Man noun: the global financial elite, represented as a stereotypical attendee of the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Noun (1)

Davos Man (plural (uncommon) Davos Men)

  1. The global financial elite, represented as a stereotypical attendee of the World Economic Forum in Davos.
    • The rewards of an increasingly integrated global economy have brought forth a new global elite. Labeled ‘Davos Men’, ‘gold-collar workers’ or . . . ‘cosmocrats’, this emerging class is empowered by new notions of global connectedness. It includes academics, international civil servants and...2004, Samuel P. Huntington, “Dead Souls: The Denationalization of the American Elite”, in The National Interest, number 75, →ISSN, pages 5–18
    • So Davos man has a troublesome pre-history of combining brilliance and stupidity, of being blinded by national and ideological prejudice to his own long-term interest and destroying with one hand what he has built with the other.2005 February 3, Timothy Garton Ash, “Davos man's death wish”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2017

Noun (2) capitalized: Davos man

Davos man (plural Davos men)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Davos Man.

Forms of Davos Man

plural uncommonDavos Men
alternative formDavos man
pluralDavos men

Origin of Davos Man

Coined by American political scientist Samuel P. Huntington in the early 2000s.

Questions about Davos Man

What does Davos Man mean?
Davos Man means the global financial elite, represented as a stereotypical attendee of the World Economic Forum in Davos.
What part of speech is Davos Man?
Davos Man is a noun.
What is the plural of Davos Man?
The plural of Davos Man is Davos men.

Words near Davos Man in the dictionary

  1. Davo
  2. davoch
  3. davochs
  4. Davor
  5. Davos
  6. Davos Man
  7. Davos Men
  8. Davoud
  9. davreuxite
  10. Davtyan
  11. Davtyans

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Davos Man (page history and authors); Davos man (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Davos Man.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/davos_man. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.