ambassador
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3.7
- noun
- /æmˈbæsədər/
- Formal
:
embajador
- Mr. Sayle, you have the American Ambassador on the line.
- U.S. ambassador
- former ambassador
- United States ambassador
So one day an Australian ambassador came in.
- So one day an Australian ambassador came in.
- And I'd like to welcome Ambassador Ong Kenyong of Singapore.
- And so the ambassador Bolin was his name.
- Flynn lied to the FBI about his contacts with then Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
- Let me introduce the moderator of our panel, Ambassador Samantha Power.
- And the purpose of it was, was to capture Ambassador Stevens.
- So their ambassador was sitting in the chair.
- Yeah, the French ambassador, where he says I don't think I'm in charge.
- Well, then Trump appoints her to be UN ambassador.
- And I'm proud that our ambassador, Melinda Simmons, is back in Kiev.
- Just a quick comment on what's going on in terms of testimony with Ambassador Sondland.
- Albright, who was the secretary of, of state, walks out with the ambassador.
- And they then made a secret deal with Dobrennan, with Ambassador Dobrennan and, you know, with Khrushchev.
- Later, she served as a special political assistant and chief Berlin aide to the US ambassador to West Germany.
- He became our ambassador to Damascus before the civil war broke out there.
- And it was the, the I knew a woman who was the wife of an ambassador in Moscow at that time.
- And then to prove to the world that we don't care at all about our country, he appoints UN Ambassador Elise Stefanik.
Examples
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Between 2005 and 2008, the face of American policy in Egypt was Ambassador Francis "Frank" Ricciardone.
Academic text (2011) -
On 17 August 2012, he was sworn in as US Ambassador to the Republic of Cyprus.
Academic text (2013) -
You know, I was in class with the son of the American ambassador to England.
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So one day an Australian ambassador came in.
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Mr. President, they have the ambassador waiting upstairs.
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"To put an end to the problem, the ambassador recommended every effort possible."
Academic text (1999) -
The Saudi ambassador called the Foreign Minister, who spoke directly to me.
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We would have received better information if we had our own ambassador in Baghdad.
Academic text (2008) -
"The process will not be quick," Ambassador Crocker told Congress of the progress in Iraq last fall.
Academic text (2008) -
The Australian ambassador spoke at the summit about improving trade relations.
Synonyms
3
6.8
A senior diplomat who represents one Commonwealth country in another
2
9.9
A diplomat who can make and sign agreements for their country
1
8.2
A woman who represents her country abroad
An old word for a senior official who a country sends to represent it in another country
How Senior
Surface Forms
Etymology
Ambassador comes from old words that mean 'sent on a mission' and is the same root as embassy, the place where that person works. So an ambassador is someone officially 'sent' by their country to represent it in another country.