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consul

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Molly Williamson, the U.S. Consul in East Jerusalem EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He's like an old Roman consul snorting at the follies of the government. ▪ It's like that Roman Emperor who made his horse into a consul . ▪ It ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An official residing in a foreign country in order to protect the interests of citizens from his or her nation. 2 (context historical English) Either of the two highest-ranking officials of the Roman Republic. 3 (context historical English) One of ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Consul \Con"sul\ (k[o^]n"s[u^]l), n. [L., prob. fr. consulere to deliberate. See Consult .] (Rom. Antiq.) One of the two chief magistrates of the republic. Note: They were chosen annually, originally from the patricians only, but later from the plebeians ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a diplomat appointed by a government to protect its commercial interests and help its citizens in a foreign country

Usage examples of consul.

Dikaios arranged a meeting for us with the Akkadian consul in Menekhet, one Lord Mesilim-Amurri.

And the minister wrote to the American Consul in Algiers for me, but the only answer was that Cassim ben Halim had disappeared.

Cincinnatus at length having prayed to the immortal gods, that his old age might not prove a detriment or disgrace to the republic at so dangerous a juncture, is appointed dictator by the consul: he himself then appoints Caius Servilius Ahala his master of the horse.

Appius Claudius, because he had dissuaded the law, and now with greater authority blamed the issue of a measure which had been found fault with by himself, the consul Servilius appoints dictator by the general wish of the patricians, and a levy and cessation of business are procaimed.

Duilius being consuls, was distinguished by a war with the Ausonians, as being new rather than important.

So Balearica had gone to the consul, Lucius Caesar, and demanded that he help her scrub it out.

Carr, but go and ring one of your ministers and tell him that you have a murder which will, tomorrow, bring the Venezuelan consul, a rich family in Caracas, quite possibly the Republica and most certainly some American newsmen from Miami all asking awkward questions.

But since the American Consul in Cartagena was the personification of neutrality, was he likely to do anything more than give the statutory assistance to four men claiming to be United States citizens and wishing to return home?

The Celtiberians in general espoused the cause of Segeda, and the Consul Q.

First Consul all expression of opinion on the subject was confined to a few quiet murmurs that Bonaparte had done for the name of Chateaubriand what, in fact, he had done only on account of his talent.

Whether the mistake is chargeable on the very ancient annals and the linen books of the magistrates, deposited in the temple of Moneta, and which Licinius Macer occasionally cites as authorities, which have Aulus Cornelius Cossus consul with Titus Quintius Pennus, in the ninth year after this, every person may form his own opinion.

I think, idle surmises may be turned to support any opinion: when the hero of the fight, having placed the recent spoils in the sacred repository, having before him Jove himself, to whom they were consecrated, and Romulus, no contemptible witnesses in case of a false inscription, entitled himself Aulus Cornelius Cossus consul.

The consuls who followed them were Aulus Cornelius Cossus and Titus Quintius Pennus a second time.

Fabius Vibulanus, interrex, presiding in the assembly, Aulus Cornelius Cossus, Lucius Furius Medullinus were elected consuls.

After the interregnum, both the consuls were elected from the patricians, Marcus Valerius Corvus a third time, and Aulus Cornelius Cossus, so that it would seem that such was the end aimed at.