Emissary
noun
A person sent to carry out a special task, usually as a representative or messenger for someone else.
The king sent an emissary to the rebellious province, trying to negotiate peace.
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noun
A person sent to carry out a special task, usually as a representative or messenger for someone else.
The king sent an emissary to the rebellious province, trying to negotiate peace.
Often appears as...
- send an emissary
- emissary from
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Diplomatic Missions
Emissaries are often involved in diplomacy; they may help to resolve conflicts or establish alliances.
The President's emissary met with foreign leaders to discuss economic partnerships.
Pro Tip 2/3Confidential Role
An emissary often carries secret or sensitive information, acting discreetly to avoid public attention.
Our emissary has been sent to discuss the terms of the confidential agreement.
Pro Tip 3/3Historical Use
The term 'emissary' has historical roots, think of them like messengers in ancient or medieval times.
The sultan dispatched an emissary to the neighboring kingdom to deliver his proposal.
Pro Tip 1/3Diplomatic Missions
Emissaries are often involved in diplomacy; they may help to resolve conflicts or establish alliances.
The President's emissary met with foreign leaders to discuss economic partnerships.
Pro Tip 2/3Confidential Role
An emissary often carries secret or sensitive information, acting discreetly to avoid public attention.
Our emissary has been sent to discuss the terms of the confidential agreement.
Pro Tip 3/3Historical Use
The term 'emissary' has historical roots, think of them like messengers in ancient or medieval times.
The sultan dispatched an emissary to the neighboring kingdom to deliver his proposal.
Pro Tip 1/3Diplomatic Missions
Emissaries are often involved in diplomacy; they may help to resolve conflicts or establish alliances.
The President's emissary met with foreign leaders to discuss economic partnerships.
Pro Tip 2/3Confidential Role
An emissary often carries secret or sensitive information, acting discreetly to avoid public attention.
Our emissary has been sent to discuss the terms of the confidential agreement.
Pro Tip 3/3Historical Use
The term 'emissary' has historical roots, think of them like messengers in ancient or medieval times.
The sultan dispatched an emissary to the neighboring kingdom to deliver his proposal.
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The hidden life of Rosa...
As an emissary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, she had traveled to rural Alabama to meet with Recy Taylor, a young woman who had been sexually assaulted by six white men. It would be difficult enough to convince an Alabama court that even one of these men was guilty, but Rosa was undeterred.
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Can you solve the Big...
Today’s the big day. You’re an intelligent creature of matter amidst a chaotic crowd of alien races. Every hundred million years, sentient species of the galaxy send emissaries to the core to pay tribute to the galactic seed you’re all descended from.
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Where did Russia come...
and as the legend goes, in 987, the Rus prince Vladamir I decided it was time to abandon Slavic paganism, and sent emissaries to explore neighboring faiths. Put off by Islam's prohibition on alcohol and Judaism's expulsion from its holy land,
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The Hidden Power of Sad...
And the answer came to me with a sudden clarity. It was like, of course, he was the writing life that I had longed for since I was four years old. He was an emissary from the beautiful world. And just like that, the obsession fell away,
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What time is it on Mars?...
and I have been privileged enough to work on three of them. So, I am a spacecraft engineer, a spacecraft operations engineer, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Los Angeles, California. And these rovers are our robotic emissaries.
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Noy Thrupkaew: Human...
in their communities. They were the people that you would take a gamble on. You'd say, I'm gong to sell my rings, because I have the chance to send you off to a better future. They were the emissaries of hope.
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The imaginary king who...
that had routed the army. But news of this victory traveled unreliably. Merchants and emissaries filled gaps in the story with epic poems and Biblical fragments. By the time the story reached Europe,
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Science's Rough, Endless...
this is the method of science so powerful that it is carried our robotic emissaries to the edge of the solar system and beyond it has doubled our lifespan made the lost world to the past
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The impact of Simón...
as young as 11 and to populate his armies he freed slaves a full half century before Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation now although he sent emissaries to seek
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Pardis Parker: I’m tired...
to king leonidas and leonidas rejected the proposal and the emissary said this is madness and leonidas said madness this sparta and then he kicked the emissary into a
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The hidden life of Rosa...
As an emissary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, she had traveled to rural Alabama to meet with Recy Taylor, a young woman who had been sexually assaulted by six white men. It would be difficult enough to convince an Alabama court that even one of these men was guilty, but Rosa was undeterred.
Video examples
Can you solve the Big...
Today’s the big day. You’re an intelligent creature of matter amidst a chaotic crowd of alien races. Every hundred million years, sentient species of the galaxy send emissaries to the core to pay tribute to the galactic seed you’re all descended from.
Video examples
Where did Russia come...
and as the legend goes, in 987, the Rus prince Vladamir I decided it was time to abandon Slavic paganism, and sent emissaries to explore neighboring faiths. Put off by Islam's prohibition on alcohol and Judaism's expulsion from its holy land,
Video examples
The Hidden Power of Sad...
And the answer came to me with a sudden clarity. It was like, of course, he was the writing life that I had longed for since I was four years old. He was an emissary from the beautiful world. And just like that, the obsession fell away,
Video examples
What time is it on Mars?...
and I have been privileged enough to work on three of them. So, I am a spacecraft engineer, a spacecraft operations engineer, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Los Angeles, California. And these rovers are our robotic emissaries.
Video examples
Noy Thrupkaew: Human...
in their communities. They were the people that you would take a gamble on. You'd say, I'm gong to sell my rings, because I have the chance to send you off to a better future. They were the emissaries of hope.
Video examples
The imaginary king who...
that had routed the army. But news of this victory traveled unreliably. Merchants and emissaries filled gaps in the story with epic poems and Biblical fragments. By the time the story reached Europe,
Video examples
Science's Rough, Endless...
this is the method of science so powerful that it is carried our robotic emissaries to the edge of the solar system and beyond it has doubled our lifespan made the lost world to the past
Video examples
The impact of Simón...
as young as 11 and to populate his armies he freed slaves a full half century before Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation now although he sent emissaries to seek
Video examples
Pardis Parker: I’m tired...
to king leonidas and leonidas rejected the proposal and the emissary said this is madness and leonidas said madness this sparta and then he kicked the emissary into a
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Antonio Garcia Martinez
In Cuba, where Wi-Fi is both slow and terrible, you will be an emissary from the future, a hint of the degeneracy to come. You're a full-on mainlining internet junkie with the world's uproar piped into your head 24/7, your emotional landscape terraformed and buffeted by whatever some narcissist just posted on Instagram or some windbag on Twitter.
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Terry Glavin
Canadian Author
On Sept. 20, 2011, a year after I spoke with Rabanni, a couple of Taliban emissaries arrived at his Kabul fortress with a gift for his 71st birthday. It turned out not to be the truce offering they had claimed they were bringing: one of the Talibs had a bomb hidden in his turban.
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Susan Vreeland
American Author
Luncheon of the Boating Party,' owned by The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., has served Americans as a symbol of France and French culture, both of which I love, and is as evocative and triumphant an image as that other emissary of France, the Statue of Liberty.
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Seth Shostak
American Scientist
Ever since the Second World War, television signals (as well as FM radio and radar) have served as Homo sapiens' emissaries into deep space. High-frequency, high-power broadcasts have filled an Earth-centered bubble more than 60 light-years in radius with signals.
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Antony Blinken
American Statesman
President John F. Kennedy demonstrated the value of presidential credibility at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, when he sent emissaries to America's allies in October 1962 to secure support for the quarantine of Cuba.
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Roscoe Conkling
American Politician
Without bureaus, committees, officials or emissaries to manufacture sentiment in his favor, without intrigue or effort on his part, Grant is the candidate whose supporters have never threatened to bolt.
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James Lankford
American Politician
Al Qaeda likes to coordinate, have a central command to be able to send out emissaries around that they have highly trained and say, 'This is the moment we're going to do a large-scale attack.
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Margot Kidder
American Actress
I was in two episodes playing Christopher Reeve's character's emissary. They wanted to have my character announce Dr Swan's death, which I thought was exploitative.
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Hazel Scott
American Musician
I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we're there to make converts.
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Tom Paulin
Irish Poet
Teachers are the ministers and priests of culture, its practitioners and its emissaries.
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Antonio Garcia Martinez
In Cuba, where Wi-Fi is both slow and terrible, you will be an emissary from the future, a hint of the degeneracy to come. You're a full-on mainlining internet junkie with the world's uproar piped into your head 24/7, your emotional landscape terraformed and buffeted by whatever some narcissist just posted on Instagram or some windbag on Twitter.
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Terry Glavin
Canadian Author
On Sept. 20, 2011, a year after I spoke with Rabanni, a couple of Taliban emissaries arrived at his Kabul fortress with a gift for his 71st birthday. It turned out not to be the truce offering they had claimed they were bringing: one of the Talibs had a bomb hidden in his turban.
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Susan Vreeland
American Author
Luncheon of the Boating Party,' owned by The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., has served Americans as a symbol of France and French culture, both of which I love, and is as evocative and triumphant an image as that other emissary of France, the Statue of Liberty.
Quote examples
Seth Shostak
American Scientist
Ever since the Second World War, television signals (as well as FM radio and radar) have served as Homo sapiens' emissaries into deep space. High-frequency, high-power broadcasts have filled an Earth-centered bubble more than 60 light-years in radius with signals.
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Antony Blinken
American Statesman
President John F. Kennedy demonstrated the value of presidential credibility at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, when he sent emissaries to America's allies in October 1962 to secure support for the quarantine of Cuba.
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Roscoe Conkling
American Politician
Without bureaus, committees, officials or emissaries to manufacture sentiment in his favor, without intrigue or effort on his part, Grant is the candidate whose supporters have never threatened to bolt.
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James Lankford
American Politician
Al Qaeda likes to coordinate, have a central command to be able to send out emissaries around that they have highly trained and say, 'This is the moment we're going to do a large-scale attack.
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Margot Kidder
American Actress
I was in two episodes playing Christopher Reeve's character's emissary. They wanted to have my character announce Dr Swan's death, which I thought was exploitative.
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Hazel Scott
American Musician
I think we musicians are emissaries. Every time we go before the public, we're there to make converts.
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Tom Paulin
Irish Poet
Teachers are the ministers and priests of culture, its practitioners and its emissaries.
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