Embassy
['embəsɪ] or ['ɛmbəsi]
Definition
(noun.) a diplomatic building where ambassadors live or work.
(noun.) an ambassador and his entourage collectively.
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Definition
(n.) The public function of an ambassador; the charge or business intrusted to an ambassador or to envoys; a public message to; foreign court concerning state affairs; hence, any solemn message.
(n.) The person or persons sent as ambassadors or envoys; the ambassador and his suite; envoys.
(n.) The residence or office of an ambassador.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Commission, mission.[2]. Legation, ambassadors.
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Definition
n. the charge or function of an ambassador: the person or persons sent on an undertaking.—ns. Em′bassade Em′bassage (same as Ambassage); Embass′ador (same as Ambassador).
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Examples
- You will deliver it at the Russian Embassy. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- To the court of Tai-tsung came an embassy from Byzantium, and, what is more significant, from Persia came a company of Nestorian missionaries (631). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I think, Watson, you and I will drive together to the Russian Embassy. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The French or the Russian embassy would pay an immense sum to learn the contents of these papers. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- A still more remarkable embassy also came to the court of Tai-tsung in the year 628, three years earlier than the Nestorians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He would take the letter to an Embassy in London, as likely as not. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The embassy was itself a curiously constituted body. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But the brother of one of the secretaries of the Republican Embassy at Paris made a trip to St Jean de Luz last week to meet people from Burgos. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The first English embassies to Russia arose altogether from commercial interests. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- These agents work independently, and their relations with the Embassies are often strained. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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