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æmˈbæs ə dər, -ˌdɔram·bas·sador

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. ambassador, embassadornoun

    a diplomat of the highest rank; accredited as representative from one country to another

  2. ambassadornoun

    an informal representative

    "an ambassador of good will"

Wiktionary

  1. ambassadornoun

    A trick to duck some ignorant fellow or landsman, frequently played on board ships in the warm latitudes. It is thus managed: A large tub is filled with water, and two stools placed on each side of it. Over the whole is thrown a tarpaulin, or old sail: this is kept tight by two persons, who are to represent the king and queen of a foreign country, and are seated on the stools. The person intended to be ducked plays the Ambassador, and after repeating a ridiculous speech dictated to him, is led in great form up to the throne, and seated between the king and queen, who rising suddenly as soon as he is seated, he falls backwards into the tub of water. (1811 Dictionary of Vulgar Tongue)

  2. ambassadornoun

    A minister of the highest rank sent to a foreign court to represent there his sovereign or country.

  3. ambassadornoun

    An official messenger and representative.

  4. ambassadornoun

    A corporate representative, often the public face of the company.

Wikipedia

  1. Ambassador

    An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or sovereign or appointed for a special and often temporary diplomatic assignment. The word is also often used more liberally for persons who are known, without national appointment, to represent certain professions, activities and fields of endeavor such as sales. An ambassador is the ranking government representative stationed in a foreign capital. The host country typically allows the ambassador control of specific territory called an embassy, whose territory, staff, and vehicles are generally afforded diplomatic immunity in the host country. Under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, an ambassador has the highest diplomatic rank. Countries may choose to maintain diplomatic relations at a lower level by appointing a chargé d'affaires in place of an ambassador. The equivalent to an ambassador exchanged among members of the Commonwealth of Nations are known as High Commissioners. The "ambassadors" of the Holy See are known as Papal or Apostolic Nuncios.

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  1. ambassador

    An ambassador is a high-ranking official, often appointed by a government, who represents their country in a foreign nation. They act as a diplomat, maintaining political, economic, social, and cultural relations between the two countries. Ambassadors also protect the interests of their home nation and its citizens abroad, and may negotiate treaties or agreements. They typically reside in an embassy in the foreign nation.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Ambassadornoun

    alt. of Embassador

Wikidata

  1. Ambassador

    An Ambassador is an official envoy; especially, a highest ranking diplomat who represents a State and is usually accredited to another sovereign State, or to an international organization as the resident representative of his or her own government or sovereign or appointed for a special and often temporary diplomatic assignment. The word is also often used more liberally for persons who are known, without national appointment, to represent certain professions, activities and fields of endeavor. In its most common use, the term usually applies to the ranking government representative stationed in a foreign capital. The host country typically allows the ambassador control of specific territory called an embassy, whose territory, staff, and even vehicles are generally afforded diplomatic immunity in the host country. The equivalent to an Ambassador exchanged among members of the Commonwealth of Nations are known as High Commissioners. The "Ambassadors" of the Holy See are known as Papal or Apostolic Nuncios. As formally defined and recognized at the Congress of Vienna, ambassadors were originally regarded as personal representatives of their country's chief executive rather than of the whole country, and their rank entitled them to meet personally with the head of state of the host country. Since 1945 all nations have been recognized as equals, and ambassadors or their equivalents are sent to all countries with which diplomatic relations are maintained. Before the development of modern communications, ambassadors were entrusted with extensive powers; they have since been reduced to spokespeople for their foreign offices.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Ambassador

    am-bas′a-dur, n. a diplomatic minister of the highest order sent by one sovereign power to another:—fem. Ambass′adress.—adj. Ambassadō′rial.—n. Ambass′adorship.—n. Ambass′age—now usually Embassage, the position, or the business, of an ambassador: a number of men despatched on an embassy or mission.—Ambassador Extraordinary, an ambassador sent on a special occasion, as distinguished from the ordinary or resident ambassador. [It. ambasciadore—L. ambactus, derived by Grimm from Goth. andbahts, a servant, whence Ger. amt, office; by Zeuss and others traced to a Celtic source, and identified with W. amaeth, a husbandman.]

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Ambassador

    "an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth" (Wotton).

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  1. Ambassador

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Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. ambassador

    A practical joke performed on board ship in warm climates, in which the dupes are unmercifully ducked in the wash-deck tub:-- "And he was wash'd, who ne'er was wash'd before."

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  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'ambassador' in Nouns Frequency: #2417

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of ambassador in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ambassador in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of ambassador in a Sentence

  1. Ben Sasse:

    The best thing the United States can do to push back against Chinese cheating now is to lead the other eleven Pacific nations that believe in free trade and the rule of law, it is good news that today, the President directed Larry Kudlow and Ambassador Lighthizer to negotiate U.S. entry into TPP.

  2. Eric Schultz:

    The US did not draft this resolution nor did the US introduce this resolution, the Egyptians, in partnership with the Palestinians, are the ones who began circulating an earlier draft of the resolution. The Egyptians are the ones who moved it forward on Friday. And we took the position that we did when it was put to a vote. The White House already has acknowledged Obama made the decision for U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power to abstain. Unclear was how involved the Obama administration was in crafting and pushing the resolution itself – which initially was put forward by Egypt, and then pursued as well by New Zealand, Malaysia, Senegal and Venezuela. Netanyahu told his cabinet on Sunday that while the U.S. and Israel for decades had disagreed on settlements, they had an understanding that such action before the U.N. Security Council would make peace negotiations harder.

  3. Samantha Power:

    I joined the (Cameroonian) governor of the area ... the leading U.N. official who manages the humanitarian and development response and Ambassador Hoza, and we visited with the boy's family to offer our profound condolences.

  4. Eric Swalwell:

    I think we should hear from him in the public and that we should get to the bottom of just exactly why was he working with Russia Today, as a former Defense Intelligence Agency director, he of all people knows that agency is connected to Russia's intelligence services and so to take money from them and to work with Russian ambassador after sanctions were put on Russia and to lie to the vice president, that's powerful evidence that he knew what was going on and this was converging at the time of Russia's interference campaign.

  5. Uwe Morawetz:

    We have been asked by the South Korean ambassador to postpone our visit until after the party congress, but we have not (been) asked to cancel the visit, the problem was simply that the Nobel laureates are very busy people and we cannot just switch an event that has been planned for two-and-a-half years to another date this year.

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