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Definition of Embassy

1. Noun. A diplomatic building where ambassadors live or work.

Definition of Embassy

1. 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.

Definition of Embassy

1. Noun. The function or duty of an ambassador. ¹

2. Noun. An organization or group of officials who permanently represent a sovereign state in a second sovereign state or with respect to an international organization such as the United Nations. ¹

3. Noun. A temporary mission representing a sovereign state. ¹

4. Noun. The official residence of such a group, or of an ambassador. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Embassy

1. the headquarters of an ambassador [n -SIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Embassy

Literary usage of Embassy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1819)
"E are now in possession of three quartos, besides a goodly octavo, as the literary fruits of Lord Amherst's embassy to China—how many more are yet hatching ..."

2. History of the Popes: Their Church and State by Leopold von Ranke, E. Fowler (1901)
"[Report of the extraordinary embassy of Signors Pesaro, Contarini, Valiero, and Sagredo, sent by the most serene republic of Venice to render the accustomed ..."

3. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1870)
"A direct communication with the court of Hungary embassy seems to have been an ... The immediate com- Henry. mission of the embassy was addressed to the ..."

4. The History of the Popes: From the Close of the Middle Ages. Drawn from the by Ludwig Pastor (1908)
"At the head of this embassy came Tristan d'Acunha, who was so well known for ... For details relating to the embassy of King Emanuel to the Pope : it has ..."

5. American Diplomacy in the Orient by John Watson Foster (1903)
"The embassy consisting, officials and attendants, of seventy-one persons, ... The embassy was received in San Francisco with cordial welcome, transferred at ..."

6. The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo, Giovanni Battista Baldelli Boni, Hugh Murray, Société de géographie (France) (1852)
"... or Prester John—His defeat and Death—Extensive Conquests of Gengis—Tartar Invasion of Europe—Ravages—embassy and Letter from the ..."

7. La démocratie libérale by Thomas Hodgkin, Etienne Vacherot (1896)
"The embassy consisted of an official of high rank in the Gothic state but of Roman lineage (one who occupied in fact nearly the same position formerly held ..."

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