'Envoy' definitions:
Definition of 'envoy'
From: WordNet
noun
A diplomat having less authority than an ambassador [syn: envoy, envoy extraordinary, minister plenipotentiary]
noun
Someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else [syn: emissary, envoy]
noun
A brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry [syn: envoy, envoi]
Definition of 'Envoy'
From: GCIDE
- Envoy \En"voy\, n. [F. envoy['e] envoy, fr. envoyer to send; pref. en- (L. in) + voie way, L. via: cf. F. envoi an envoy (in sense 2). See Voyage, and cf. Invoice.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. [F. envoi, fr. envoyer to send.] An explanatory or commendatory postscript to a poem, essay, or book; -- also in the French from, l'envoi. [1913 Webster]
- The envoy of a ballad is the "sending" of it forth. --Skeat. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'envoy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- agent,
- ambassador,
- ambassadress,
- apostolic delegate,
- attache,
- bearer,
- career diplomat,
- carrier,
- chancellor,
- charge,
- commercial attache,
- commissar,
- commissary,
- commissionaire,
- commissioner,
- consul,
- consul general,
- consular agent,
- councillor,
- courier,
- delegate,
- diplomat,
- diplomatic,
- diplomatic agent,
- diplomatist,
- emissary,
- envoy extraordinary,
- foreign service officer,
- herald,
- internuncio,
- legate,
- messenger,
- military attache,
- minister,
- minister plenipotentiary,
- minister resident,
- nuncio,
- plenipotentiary,
- representative,
- resident,
- secretary,
- secretary of legation,
- vice-consul,
- vice-legate