a person sent by one government or political leader to another to take messages or to take part in discussions:
Meaning of emissary in English
(Definition of emissary from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
emissary | Intermediate English
a person sent by one government or political leader to another to deliver messages or to take part in discussions
Examples of emissary
emissary
He's the secret emissary, the evaluator of talent, the whisperer of confidential advice.
From Washington Post
They were like emissaries from another world, undimmed by the mass of centuries that had passed since they had been last seen.
From The Seattle Times
Lot is visited by divine emissaries to investigate if there are indeed enough good people to save the town.
From CNN
Even menus and meals, neat encoded emissaries though they are, can just barely be taken over.
From The New Yorker
He may be the only so-called secret emissary in the world who likes so much publicity.
From Foreign Policy
Nor do emissaries from the 2070s try clarifying time travel for the uninitiated.
From TIME
Band members also turned into melodic cultural emissaries in the debate over immigration reform, performing at rallies nationwide.
From Los Angeles Times
Do you think our children will go into space or will we keep sending robot emissaries?
From Wired
The current full troupe of about 40 dancers are not spiritual emissaries, however, but cultural ambassadors -- and entertainers.
From Los Angeles Times
Not a single emissary was sent.
From The Atlantic
If we can't get that information, if we can't have you as our emissaries to get that information to us, we can not do that part of our constitutional responsibility.
From Washington Times
I hear that through my emissary.
From NBCNews.com
In this void, other researchers have suggested the polarized electrons themselves, either from radioactive decay or as cosmic rays hailing at the appropriate energy, might be the emissaries of chirality.
From Phys.Org
Each officer had served as official emissary on important missions abroad.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
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émissaire…
temsilci…
afgezant…
zvláštní vyslanec…
udsending, repræsentant…
utusan…
ผู้แทนทางการทูต…
sứ thần…
emisariusz…
sändebud, emmisarie…
emisari…
der/die Abgesandte…
statlig overhode…
емісар, посланець…
