Envoy

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To send.
  • noun. Formerly, and sometimes still archaically, a postscript to a composition, particularly a ballade or other sentimental poem, to enforce or recommend it.
  • noun. Figuratively, termination; end.
  • noun. One despatched upon an errand or a mission; a messenger; specifically, a person deputed by a ruler or government to negotiate a treaty, or transact other business, with a foreign ruler or government.
  • noun. Synonyms See ambassador, 1.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One dispatched upon an errand or mission; a messenger; esp., a person deputed by a sovereign or a government to negotiate a treaty, or transact other business, with a foreign sovereign or government; a minister accredited to a foreign government. An envoy's rank is below that of an ambassador.
  • noun. An explanatory or commendatory postscript to a poem, essay, or book; -- also in the French from, l'envoi.
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  • noun. representative
  • noun. diplomat
  • noun. messenger
  • noun. a short stanza at the end of a poem
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  • noun. a diplomat having less authority than an ambassador
  • noun. a brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry
  • noun. someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else
  • Word Usage
    "As rebels challenging pro-Qaddafi forces struggled to regroup around the oil port of Brega, and the roar of allied warplanes was heard again over the capital, residents reacted in shock at the defection of Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa, a close ally of Colonel Qaddafi's since the early days of the revolution, who once earned the nickname "envoy of death" for his role in the assassinations of earlier Libyan defectors."
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