Definition of "embassy"

embassy

/ˈɛmbəsi/

noun
plural embassies
1. The function or duty of an ambassador.
2. An organization or group of officials who permanently represent a sovereign state in a second sovereign state or with respect to an international organization such as the United Nations.
3. A temporary mission representing a sovereign state.
  Quotations
  Then go we in to know his embassy;Which I could with a ready guess declareBefore the Frenchman speak a word of it.
  1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene i]
4. The official residence of such a group, or of an ambassador.
5. (archaic) A written account as to an embassy.
  Quotations
  By the various Relations, Embaſſies and Voyages of Siam that have been publiſht within theſe laſt Four Years […]
  1690, “A Relation of the Late Great Revolution in Siam, and the Driving Out of the French”, in A Full and True Relation of the Great and Wonderful Revolution That Hapned Lately in the Kingdom of Siam in the East-Indies, London: Randal Taylor, page 1

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