noun. A building containing the offices of an ambassador and staff.

noun. The position, function, or assignment of an ambassador.

noun. A mission to a foreign government headed by an ambassador.

noun. A staff of diplomatic representatives headed by an ambassador.

noun. The public function or mission of an ambassador; the charge or employment of a public minister, whether ambassador or envoy; hence, an important mission of any kind: as, he was qualified for the embassy.

noun. A message, as that of an ambassador; a charge committed to a messenger.

noun. A mission, or the person or persons intrusted with a mission; a legation.

noun. The official residence of an ambassador; the ambassadorial building or buildings.

noun. The public function of an ambassador; the charge or business intrusted to an ambassador or to envoys; a public message to; foreign court concerning state affairs; hence, any solemn message.

noun. The person or persons sent as ambassadors or envoys; the ambassador and his suite; envoys.

noun. The residence or office of an ambassador.

noun. The function or duty of an ambassador.

noun. 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.

noun. A temporary mission representing a sovereign state.

noun. The official residence of such a group, or of an ambassador.

noun. an ambassador and his entourage collectively

noun. a diplomatic building where ambassadors live or work

"It is known of course to all divines, but not necessarily, perhaps, to every other person, that this turbulent and ambitious patriarch, during what he calls his embassy to Syria, occupied himself in taking down notes of the contents of theological treatises by his predecessors and contemporaries, with his judgments on their merits."