Meaning of envoy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Send.
2. A diplomatic agent of the second rank, next in status after an ambassador
3. A diplomatic agent of the second rank, next in status after an ambassador.
4. a short stanza concluding a poem, as a ballade, often containing a dedication or summary, or a similar postscript to a prose work.
5. Mission, legated.
6. A representative
7. A representative.
8. A person who carries messages or is sent on errands:bearer, carrier, conveyer, courier, messenger, runner, transporter.
9. A diplomat
10. A diplomat.
11. a messenger, especially one sent to deal with a foreign government. He was sent to France as the king's envoy. gesant مَبْعوث، مَنْدوب، رَسول пратеник enviado vyslanec, -kyně der Gesandte udsending; repræsentant απεσταλμένοςenviado, mensajero saadik پیام رسان؛ سفیر viestinviejä envoyé/-ée שליח दूत izaslanik, poslanik, glasnik követ utusan erindreki; sendifulltrúi inviato 使節 사절, 외교관 pasiuntinys sūtnis utusan afgezantutsending, sendebudposeł, wysłannik پيغام رسونكى enviado trimis, sol посланник...
    especially
12. A messenger
13. A messenger.
14. A representative of a government who is sent on a special diplomatic mission.
15. Alternative spelling of envoi (“short stanza at end of poem”)
16. Alternative spelling of envoi (“short stanza at end of poem”).
    alt-of, alternative
17. A minister plenipotentiary assigned to a foreign embassy, ranking next below the ambassador.
18. A messenger; an agent.
19. A short closing stanza in certain verse forms, such as the ballade or sestina, dedicating the poem to a patron or summarizing its main ideas.
20. The concluding portion of a prose work or a play.
21. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) Formal name: envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary a diplomat of the second class, ranking between an ambassador and a minister resident
22. an accredited messenger, agent, or representative

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Examples

“special envoy to the United Nations”

“In the year 1460 the king Tu-ma-pan (Tumapel?)† sent envoys to carry tribute. When these envoys went back, and had arrived at An-ch’ing,‡ they got drunk and had a fight with foreign priests who came to bring tribute, and of whom six were killed.”

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