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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
consul
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 was the consul, of course, who had to be willing.
▪ No one had any record of a request from the consul general for interviews.
▪ The consul can accompany a victim when dealing with police and provide an interpreter.
▪ The consul looked at her so gratefully I think he forgot I was in the room.
▪ The consul said the papers would take time to prepare.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Consul

Consul \Con"sul\ (k[o^]n"s[u^]l), n. [L., prob. fr. consulere to deliberate. See Consult.]

  1. (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 also.

  2. A senator; a counselor. [Obs.]

    Many of the consuls, raised and met, Are at the duke's already.
    --Shak.

    With kings and consuls of the earth.
    --Job. iii. 14 (Douay Ver. )

  3. (Fr. Hist.) One of the three chief magistrates of France from 1799 to 1804, who were called, respectively, first, second, and third consul.

  4. An official commissioned to reside in some foreign country, to care for the commercial interests of the citizens of the appointing government, and to protect its seamen.

    Consul general, a consul of the first rank, stationed in an important place, or having jurisdiction in several places or over several consuls.

    Vice consul, a consular officer holding the place of a consul during the consul's absence or after he has been relieved.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
consul

late 14c., "magistrate in ancient Rome," from Old French consule and directly from Latin consul "magistrate in ancient Rome," probably originally "one who consults the Senate," from consulere "to deliberate, take counsel" (see consultation).\n

\nModern sense began with use as appellation of various foreign officials and magistrates, "a representative chosen by a community of merchants living in a foreign country; an agent appointed by a government or ruler to represent the interests of its subjects and traders in a foreign place" (c.1600), an extended sense that developed 13c. in the Spanish form of the word.

Wiktionary
consul

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 three chief magistrates of France from 1799 to 1804. 4 (context obsolete English) A senator; a counsellor.

WordNet
consul

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

Wikipedia
Consul

Consul (abbrev. cos.; Latin plural consules) was the highest elected office of the appointive office under the Roman Empire. The title was also used in other city states and also revived in modern states, notably in the First French Republic. The relating adjective is consular, from the consularis.

Consul (representative)

A consul is an official representative of the government of one state in the territory of another, normally acting to assist and protect the citizens of the consul's own country, and to facilitate trade and friendship between the people of the two countries. A consul is distinguished from an ambassador, the latter being a representative from one head of state to another. There can be only one ambassador from one country to another, representing the first country's head of state to that of the second, and his or her duties revolve around diplomatic relations between the two countries; however, there may be several consuls, one in each of several main cities, providing assistance with bureaucratic issues to both the citizens of the consul's own country travelling or living abroad and to the citizens of the country the consul resides in who wish to travel to or trade with the consul's country.

Consul (disambiguation)

A consul is one of a number of political officials.

  • Roman consul, the highest elected office in ancient Rome

All later Consuls and Consulates are ultimately derived from the Roman ones, in particular:

  • Consul (representative), a representative in one country of the government of another
    • Consul General, the head of a consular mission
    • Vice Consul, a subordinate consular officer
  • First Consul, a title used by Napoleon
  • Consulate of the Sea, quasi-judicial body in Medieval Aragon

Consul may also refer to:

Consul (genus)

Consul described by Pieter Cramer in 1776 is a South American nymphalid butterfly genus in the subfamily Charaxinae.

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.