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ambassador

English

Alternative forms

  • ambassadour (obsolete)
  • embassador (archaic)
  • embassadour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English ambassadore, from Anglo-Norman ambassadeur, ambassateur, from Old Italian ambassatore, ambassadore, from Old Occitan ambaisador (ambassador), derivative of ambaissa (service, mission, errand), from Medieval Latin ambasiator, from Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (andbahti, service, function), from Proto-Germanic *ambahtij? (service, office), derivative of Proto-Germanic *ambahtaz (servant), from Gaulish ambaxtos ("servant"; also the source of Latin ambactus (vassal, servant, dependent)), from Proto-Celtic *ambaxtos (servant), from Proto-Indo-European *h?m?b?i-h?e?- (drive around), from *h?m?b?i- (around) + *h?e?- (to drive).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /æm?bæs.?.d?(?)/
  • (US) IPA(key): /æm?bæs.?.d?/, /æm?bæs.??d??/

Noun

ambassador (plural ambassadors)

  1. A minister of the highest rank sent to a foreign court to represent there his sovereign or country. (Sometimes called ambassador-in-residence)
  2. An official messenger and representative.
  3. A corporate representative, often the public face of the company.
    As front hall porter, you are an ambassador for the hotel.

Usage notes

  • In English the preferred construction is (Nationality) ambassador to (Country) (the French ambassador to the United States) or ambassador of (Sending Country) to (Receiving Country) (the ambassador of France to the United States).

Derived terms

Related terms

  • embassy

Translations

See also

  • consul
  • high commissioner

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messenger

English

Etymology

From Middle English messengere, messingere, messangere, from Old French messanger, a variant of Old French messagier (French messager), equivalent to message +? -er. Doublet of messager.Displaced native English boda (messenger, envoy) and English ærendwreca (messenger, ambassador).

For the replacement of -ager with -enger, -inger, -anger, compare passenger, harbinger, scavenger, porringer. This development may have been merely the addition of n, or it may have resulted due to contamination from other suffixes such as Middle English -ing and the rare Old French -ange, -enc, -inge, -inghe (-ing) for Old French -age (-age).

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /?m?s.n?.d???/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?m?s.n?.d???/
  • Hyphenation: mes?sen?ger

Noun

messenger (plural messengers)

  1. One who brings messages.
  2. (nautical) A light line with which a heavier line may be hauled e.g. from the deck of a ship to the pier.
  3. The supporting member of an aerial cable (electric power or telephone or data).
  4. (law) A person appointed to perform certain ministerial duties under bankrupt and insolvent laws, such as to take charge of the estate of the bankrupt or insolvent.
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  5. (computing) An instant messenger program.
  6. A forerunner.
  7. A light scudding cloud preceding a storm.
  8. A piece of paper, etc., blown up a string to a kite.
  9. (oceanography) A weight dropped down a line to close a Nansen bottle.
  10. The secretary bird.
  11. (Scotland) A messenger-at-arms.

Derived terms

  • instant messenger
  • raven-messenger

Translations

Verb

messenger (third-person singular simple present messengers, present participle messengering, simple past and past participle messengered)

  1. (transitive) To send something by messenger.
    I'll messenger over the signed documents.

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