Crossword clues for consulate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Consulate \Con"su*late\, n. [L. consulatus: cf. F. consulat.]
The office of a consul.
--Addison.The jurisdiction or residence of a consul.
--Kent.Consular government; term of office of a consul.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "government of Rome by the consuls," from Latin consulatus "office of a consul," from consul (see consul). Also used in reference to the consular government of France from 1799-1804. In reference to the office of a modern consul, from 1702.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The residency of a consul 2 In practice, an office of a government in a foreign city that oversees the distribution of visas and provides assistance to nationals.
WordNet
n. diplomatic building that serves as the residence or workplace of a consul
Wikipedia
Consulate may refer to:
- the office, comparable in some senses to an embassy, of a Consul (representative), an official representative of a state outside its territory
- the office or term of any official styled Consul, originally a magistrate of the Roman Republic
- Consulate of the Sea, a catalan medieval judicial organ for commerce
- French Consulate, the government of republican France from 1799 to 1804
- a brand of menthol cigarette introduced by Rothmans International
Usage examples of "consulate".
We lost sight of each other for many years, but when I was at Basrah a few weeks ago I encountered him in the Consulate waiting-room.
Mexican television in America broadcasts not dry notices of immigration reform or Mexican consulate seminars, but splashy Jerry Springer-like talk shows, where Chicanas with dyed blond hair, breast implants and bare navels wiggle in the audience and chatter in hot tubs, unlike anything that used to be aired in the village plaza in Mexico.
It is not possible to say how it originated, but just before Christmas 1879 a fire broke out in Hakodate, which in a few hours destroyed 20 streets, 2500 houses, the British Consulate, several public buildings, the new native Christian church, and the church Mission House, leaving 11,000 people homeless.
The Austrian Consulate was across the street from the Hotel Khedival, the festivities there unexceptional.
Hispanics to send food and clothing to the Mexican town of Nayarit after the devastations of Hurricane Kenna had been stymied by the inefficiency and obduracy of the Mexican consulate.
During the day of the twenty-fifth, a Friday, it became known that the German Foreign Office had wired the embassies and consulates in Poland, France and Britain requesting that German citizens be asked to leave by the quickest route.
He laid down a completed application form of the type issued by the Surinamese Consulate and filled out by the applicant for a visa.
I never really enjoyed as long as I stayed in Liverpool, where it seemed to be that the quintessence of nasal and hand-shaking Yankeedom was gradually filtered and sublimated through my consulate, on the way outward and homeward.
With his ready-made mob of Farers, Gelmar, Chief Wandsman of Skeg, shut down the GU consulate and made Skeg a closed enclave which no foreigner might leave.
The five stowaways were removed from the freighter and brought to the Haitian consulate.
Sir John, with his one good foot, personally kicked in the merchant's door, dragged him out from under his charpoy bed, dropped him to his knees with a fullblooded round-house punch, chained him around the neck and marched him through the city streets to the consulate and locked him in the wine cellar until the fine was paid and the slaves" manumission papers signed.
On the excuse of protecting Soviet personnel in England from demonstrations of public animosity, they had been confined within a radius of twenty miles of their homes, and 'for their protection' police were thick round the Soviet Embassy, the consulates and their various trading offices.
If things were as Marie thought they were and alarms had been sent out to friendly consulates, Staples might feel compelled to co-operate.
Keeping track of foreign "diplomats" who used their consulates as bases for surveillance and intelligence gathering activities.
The embassies and consulates advised staying put because the venceristas had begun a new campaign of urban terrorism which included kidnapping foreigners, but everyone thought the diplomats were being excessively cautious.