Crossword clues for envoy
envoy
- Diplomatic agent
- Embassy staffer
- Certain diplomat
- Person on a mission
- Position below ambassador
- Official representative
- Official messenger
- GMC SUV
- Diplomatic messenger
- Diplomatic go-between
- Accredited messenger
- Notch below ambassador
- Governmental messenger
- Foreign representative
- Embassy go-between
- Ambassador's aide
- Messenger
- Representative
- Accredited diplomat
- Ambassador's inferior
- Embassy figure
- Diplomatic representative
- Diplomatic agent of the second rank
- A diplomat having less authority than an ambassador
- Someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else
- A brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry
- Government agent
- Agent on a mission
- Emissary
- Messenger; representative
- Covetousness secures nothing for diplomat
- Embassy worker
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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.
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[F. envoi, fr. envoyer to send.] An explanatory or commendatory postscript to a poem, essay, or book; -- also in the French from, l'envoi.
The envoy of a ballad is the ``sending'' of it forth.
--Skeat.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"messenger," 1660s, from French envoyé "messenger; a message; a sending; the postscript of a poem," literally "one sent" (12c.), noun use of past participle of envoyer "send," from Vulgar Latin *inviare "send on one's way," from Latin in "on" (see in- (2)) + via "road" (see via (adv.)). The same French word was borrowed in Middle English as envoi in the sense "stanza of a poem 'sending it off' to find readers" (late 14c.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (senseid en representative)representative 2 diplomat 3 messenger 4 a short stanza at the end of a poem
WordNet
n. a diplomat having less authority than an ambassador [syn: envoy extraordinary, minister plenipotentiary]
someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else [syn: emissary]
a brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry [syn: envoi]
Wikipedia
Envoy was an automobile brand created by General Motors of Canada and used to sell badge engineered British built Vauxhall and Bedford vehicles on the Canadian market from 1959 to 1970.
Envoy may refer to:
- an Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
- a Special Envoy
- a diplomat in general
- Envoy (automobile), an automobile brand used to sell British built Vauxhall and Bedford vehicles in the Canadian market
- Envoy (WordPerfect), a document reader and document file format
- Envoy Air, a United States regional airline
- GMC Envoy, a make of automobile
- Envoy, A Review of Literature and Art
- The Envoy, a 1982 album by Warren Zevon
- Envoy, the call sign for United Kingdom airline Flyjet
- Airspeed Envoy, a 1930s British light transport aircraft
In computing, Envoy was a proprietary portable document file format marketed by WordPerfect Corporation, created as a competitor for Acrobat Pro. It was introduced by Tumbleweed Communications Corporation in 1993 and shipped with WordPerfect Office in March 1994.
An Envoy file could be created by the use of a special printer driver in WordPerfect. The resulting document could be viewed in a separate viewer application, the Envoy Distributable Viewer, which also worked as a web browser plugin.
Unlike Adobe PDF, the file format was not publicly documented.
Envoy failed to make any headway against PDF, and is largely now unused. Some have reported success in reading Envoy documents by printing to PostScript from the Envoy Distributable Viewer, then converting the PostScript file to a PDF. The PostScript file can also be viewed directly using a viewer such as Ghostscript.
In diplomacy, an "Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary", in short Envoy, is under the terms of the Congress of Vienna of 1815, a diplomat of the second class, ranking between an Ambassador and a Minister Resident.
Usually just referred to as a Minister, an Envoy is a diplomatic representative, not considered a representative of the head of state, but nonetheless with plenipotentiary powers (i.e. full authority to represent the government). A diplomatic mission headed by an Envoy would be called a Legation rather than an Embassy. Envoys are entitled to use the style "His/Her Excellency".
Until the mid-20th century, the majority of diplomats in the world were of the rank of Envoy, with the exchanges of ambassadors being reserved among major nations, or close allies and related monarchies. The Holy See did not use the rank of Envoy, but instead had the equivalent titles of Internuncio and (at least in Anglo-Papal diplomacy between 1914 and 1982) Apostolic Delegate.
After World War II, it was no longer considered acceptable to treat some nations as inferior to others given the United Nations doctrine of equality of sovereign states; therefore the rank of Envoy for diplomatic missions' highest-ranking officials gradually ceased. This title was also dropped by Canada in the early 1940s and ended by the 1950s in other diplomatic posts.
Usage examples of "envoy".
The sky had turned crimson and saffron in the east, and the deep midnight blue Dasaratha had seen from the akasa chamber had turned to a lighter blue, the exact blue shade of the white-and-blue china vase he had been gifted with by the Greek envoy just last week.
Herrac, here, was setting out to kidnap an envoy and a chest of gold belonging to the King of Scotland, without even having bothered to check with his fellow Borderers, to see if they would help in the battle that was planned to result from the kidnapping.
Neither Torenth nor Tolan sent an envoy, but the ten-year-old Duke of Cassan came with his parents to pledge his fealty to the new king, embarking upon a friendship with his new liege lord that would become both famous and tragic in years to come.
When the Roman envoys approached the presence of the chagan, they were commanded to wait at the door of his tent, till, at the end perhaps of ten or twelve days, he condescended to admit them.
On the 26th of December the Abbe Marquisio, the envoy of the Duke of Modena, asked the viceroy, before a considerable number of people, if he could pay me a visit, to give me a letter which he could place in no hands but mine.
The remains of Jimmy de Soto are on a sealed disc with red DATA CONTAMINANT decals somewhere in a basement at Envoy Corps HQ.
When this failed to make the other volunteer anything further than that he was an accredited envoy of the Imperial government requesting an exequatur and appropriate treatment, prior to negotiating an international agreement, he was turned over to experienced torturers.
I got a new hold of him as we staggered and plunged, roaring the while like the wild beasts we were, the teeth chattering in the Martian heads as they watched us, and then, exerting all my strength, lifted him fairly from his feet and with supreme effort swung him up, shoulder high, and with a mighty heave hurled him across the tables, flung that ambassador, whom no Martian dared look upon, crashing and sprawling through the gold and silver of the feast, whirled him round with such a splendid send that bench and trestle, tankards and flagons, chairs and cloths and candelabras all went down into thundering chaos with him, and the envoy only stayed when his sacred person came to harbour amongst the westral odds and ends, the soiled linen, and dirty platters of our wedding feast.
The Hamorian envoy was lighter-skinned than most Kyphrans, and could have stepped off the Feyn River plains.
After the fiasco of the attempt of Major Stevens and Captain Best in Holland to get in touch with the German conspirators, the British were somewhat skeptical of the whole business, and when Bryans pressed Hassell for some reliable information as to whom he was speaking for the German envoy became cagey.
When Agamemnon sent for him for advice, he had also sent envoys to King Priam of Ilion to complain.
When foreign noblemen and envoys were in attendance, the master baker usually honored them by baking their native loaves and delicacies.
If you, Atma, are a true and faithful adherent of the Khalsa, you will thither repair as an envoy of the Maharanee, and will count her reward lightly won by danger encountered for the faith.
This going forth of the patriarch had been wise, because all along the way Louis had received envoys with letters and gifts and suggestions as to which of the cities of pagandom it would be profitable for the crusaders to take.
A curious but fairly accurate map of the coasts of the Peninsula was prepared in Paris in 1668 to accompany the narrative of the French envoy to the Court of Siam, but neither the mainland nor the adjacent islands attracted any interest in this country till the East India Company acquired Pinang in 1775, Province Wellesley in 1798, Singapore in 1823, and Malacca in 1824.