Definition of Embassy

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Embassy

The public function of an ambassador; the charge or business intrusted to an ambassador or to envoys; a public message to; foreign court concerning state affairs; hence, any solemn message.

The person or persons sent as ambassadors or envoys; the ambassador and his suite; envoys.

The residence or office of an ambassador.

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Embassy Quotations

We inadvertently bombed the Chinese Embassy. But Clinton now is working very hard. He has sent a letter of apology to the Chinese. And, he's also given them a gift certificate for future nuclear secrets.
David Letterman

I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy.
Shirley Temple

The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix.
Lawrence Eagleburger

In the best of all worlds everyone in the Embassy is doing something to assist U.S. exports.
Lawrence Eagleburger

Interestingly, the American Embassy mentioned that our efficient relief effort has significantly improved the image of the United States among the Pakistani people.
Jon Porter

A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was.
Zebulon Pike

We did not treat the Americans badly. They left Iran in a relaxed mood. The embassy was active here after the revolution. We didn't have any problem with them. They started it.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

I have also been saddened, though hardly surprised, by the weakness of the EU's reaction to the criminal attack on the Danish embassy in Syria, which seems to have been permitted, if not actively encouraged, by the Syrian regime.
Timothy Garton Ash

Americans who may be going to the largest embassy we've ever had.
Richard Lugar

That was Embassy Pictures, they went bankrupt shortly after This is Spinal Tap came out.
Harry Shearer

Embassy Translations

embassy in Dutch is ambassade
embassy in French is ambassade
embassy in German is Botschaft
embassy in Italian is messaggio, ambasciata
embassy in Norwegian is ambassade
embassy in Portuguese is embaixada
embassy in Spanish is embajada
embassy in Swedish is beskickning, ambassad

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