'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'

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