ambassador

Definition

  • noun: the highest-ranking person who represents his or her own government while living in another country
  • noun: an official envoy
  • often + 'to'
  • synonyms: embassador

Examples

  • She became the American 'ambassador to' Italy [=she began representing America in Italy] several years ago.

  • a 'goodwill ambassador' [=a person who travels to different places to promote friendship and goodwill]

  • an 'ambassador' of hope [=a person who tries to bring hope to another country or group of people]

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) If it's not too much trouble? Excuse me. Sorry. Sherlock, something weird... What's going on? Kidnapping. Rufus Bruhl. The ambassador to the US. He's in Washington, isn't he? Not him, his children. Max and Claudette, age seven and nine. They're at St Aldates. Posh boarding place in Surrey. School broke up, the boarders went home. A few kids remained, including those two. The kids have vanished. The ambassador's asked for you personally. The Reichenbach hero. Isn't it great to be working with a celebrity? We shouldn't need to keep you for much longer. Thank you. (..)
    2012 TvShow: Sherlock Title: The Reichenbach Fall Season: 2 Episode 3
  • (..) with those plans? We intercepted no transmissions. This is a consular ship. We're on a diplomatic mission. If this is a consular ship, where is the ambassador? Commander, tear this ship apart until you've found those plans! And bring me the passengers! I want them alive! There's one. (..)
    1977 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
  • (..) And the other nations are really working out which side to take, Should hostilities erupt. Cause uh Prince Michael is a cousin of the Tsar and the Russian ambassador, Archduke Karl Ludwig, and the austro-Hungarian ambassador, Romanian Prime Minister and his ambassador. (..)
    2011 Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows