embassy
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3.3
- noun
- /ˈɛm.bə.si/
:
embajada
- Victor Bradley of the Canadian Embassy in Washington has also been most helpful.
- U.S. embassy
- Chinese embassy
- American embassy
I was not allowed to call my embassy, nothing.
- I was not allowed to call my embassy, nothing.
- He was sheltering in the Ecuadorian Embassy right in the UK.
- This is while Assange was still in the embassy in London.
- And he told them all, I'm moving the embassy and I'm recognizing Jerusalem.
- And then he goes over to the Russian Embassy.
- I entered the embassy, somebody to came out to talk to me.
- Also, suicide bombers struck the US embassy not once, but twice.
- And we were, we were stuck in the sea of people that the embassy limo couldn't move.
- And he's on the phone saying, hey, I want to blow up the American Embassy in Albania.
- He's just, you know, hiding in the embassy.
- I know you know, Melinda, to reopen our embassy.
- We take off and we're flying over Baghdad from the airport to the embassy.
- I mean, there's no country in the world that can have its embassy bombed and not respond in some way.
Examples
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She went to the embassy to apply for a visa before her trip to Germany.
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When I meet him in Saigon, he works in the embassy of America.
Fiction book (1990) -
I think that is the same case that our embassy spoke to us about.
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I was not allowed to call my embassy, nothing.
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"Do you think the embassy will mind that we're living in a hotel?
Fiction book (1990) -
I'll go down to the embassy immediately.
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There is the North Korean embassy just over there.
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But you told the man from the embassy that you had American citizenship.
Fiction book (1994) -
U.S. officials had visited the new Chinese embassy on a number of occasions in recent years.
Academic text (1999) -
In 1969 I was invited by a friend of mine to an American Embassy party in Tokyo.
Synonyms
159
6.3
A building where a foreign country's official helps its citizens with passports and legal problems
13
3.9
A group of people sent by one country to represent it in another at an embassy or consulate
3
9.9
A permanent diplomatic office in another country led by a minister rather than an ambassador
2
6.4
An official office that represents one Commonwealth country in another
The office and staff who represent a country in a foreign land
A government building where diplomats live and work, like an embassy or consulate
A permanent office in another country that represents its government and helps with official relations
How Official
Surface Forms
Etymology
Embassy comes from the same root as ambassador, a word that once meant someone 'sent' on a mission. So an embassy is the place and team where a country's representatives work abroad and speak for their government.