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envoy

nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈɛn.vɔɪ//
  • United States//ˈɛn.vɔɪ//
  • United States//ˈɑn.vɔɪ//

A diplomatic agent of the second rank, next in status after an ambassador.

noun

  1. 1

    A diplomatic agent of the second rank, next in status after an ambassador.

  2. 2

    A representative.

    special envoy to the United Nations

    In the year 1460 the king Tu-ma-pan (Tumapel?)† sent envoys to carry tribute. When these envoys went back, and had arrived at An-ch’ing,‡ they got drunk and had a fight with foreign priests who came to bring tribute, and of whom six were killed.

  3. 3

    A diplomat.

  4. 4

    A messenger.

  5. 5

    Variant of envoiAlternative spelling of envoi (“short stanza at end of poem”).

Etymology

From French envoyé (“envoy, messenger”), from envoyer (“send”).

Forms

plural
envoys
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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