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AMBASSADOR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A diplomat of the highest rank; accredited as representative from one country to another
Synonyms:
ambassador; embassador
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("ambassador" is a kind of...):
diplomat; diplomatist (an official engaged in international negotiations)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ambassador"):
ambassadress (a woman ambassador)
Instance hyponyms:
Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko; Andrei Gromyko; Gromyko (Soviet ambassador to the United States and to the United Nations (1909-1989))
Derivation:
ambassadorial (of or relating to or characteristic of ambassadors)
ambassadorship (the post of ambassador)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An informal representative
Example:
an ambassador of good will
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("ambassador" is a kind of...):
interpreter; representative; spokesperson; voice (an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose)
Context examples:
During the course of these troubles, the emperors of Blefusca did frequently expostulate by their ambassadors, accusing us of making a schism in religion, by offending against a fundamental doctrine of our great prophet Lustrog, in the fifty-fourth chapter of the Blundecral (which is their Alcoran).
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
That, whereas certain ambassadors arrived from the Court of Blefuscu, to sue for peace in his majesty’s court, he, the said Flestrin, did, like a false traitor, aid, abet, comfort, and divert, the said ambassadors, although he knew them to be servants to a prince who was lately an open enemy to his imperial majesty, and in an open war against his said majesty.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
