embassy
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embassy
- /ˈɛmbəsi/
Where it comes from
Modern variant of obsolete ambassy, from Middle French ambassee (“mission, embassy”), from Old French ambascee (also enbassee (“message for a high official, official mission”)) from Old Italian ambasciata, from Old Occitan ambaissada (“embassy”), derived from ambaissa (“message”), from Late Latin ambactia (“service rendered”) (attested also as ambascia, from Proto-Germanic *ambahtiją (“service”), *ambahtaz (“follower, servant”), from Gaulish ambaxtos (“dependant, vassal”, literally “one who is sent around”), from Proto-Celtic *ambaxtos (“servant”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi-h₂eǵ- (“drive around”); compare Latin ambactus, Old Irish amus, amsach (“mercenary, servant”), Welsh amaeth (“tenant farm”)). Doublet of ambassade.
noun embassies · ambassy
- The function or duty of an ambassador. The King told me, […] That I ſhould have the Character of Ambaſſador Extraordinary, and the ſame Allovvance I ſhou'd have had in Spain: Upon this Offer I made no Demurr, but immediately accepted it, and ſo my Ambaſſy vvas declar'd in May 1674.
- 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. The American embassy to France is located in Paris.
- A temporary mission representing a sovereign state. The Japanese embassy to the United States traveled to Washington, D.C., where it was received by James Buchanan, before continuing on to New York and then returning to Japan, making several stops on the way.
- The official residence of such a group, or of an ambassador.
- A written account as to an embassy. By the various Relations, Embaſſies and Voyages of Siam that have been publiſht within theſe laſt Four Years […]
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: ambassade, ambassador, consular, diplomat, diplomatic, consulate, consul, chancery, exporter, mission, message, canadian, chinese, consulates, high commission, legation
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noun organization representing a foreign state
| Español | embajada |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 대사관 daesagwan |
| 日本語 | 大使館 taishikan |
| 中文 | 大使館 /大使馆 dàshǐguǎn |
| हिन्दी | दूतावास dūtāvās, राजदूतावास rājdūtāvās, प्रतिनिधिमंडल pratinidhimaṇḍal, सिफ़ारत sifārat, सिफारत siphārat, सिफ़ारतख़ाना sifāratxānā |
| Kiswahili | ubalozi |
| Português | embaixada |
| Français | ambassade |
| Deutsch | Botschaft |
| Italiano | ambasciata |
| Ελληνικά | πρεσβεία presveía |
| Română | ambasadă |
| Русский | посо́льство posólʹstvo |
| Tiếng Việt | tòa đại sứ, đại sứ quán |
| العربية | سِفَارَة sifāra |
| עברית | שַׁגְרִירוּת shagrirút |
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title = {embassy},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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