Am*bas"sa*dor (#), Em*bas"sa*dor (#), n. [See Embassador.]
1.
A minister of the highest rank sent a foreign court to represent there his sovereign or country.
⇒ Ambassador are either ordinary [or resident] or extraordinary, that is, sent upon some special or unusual occasion or errand.
Abbott.
2.
An official messenger and representative.
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Em*bas"sa*dor (?), n. [F. ambassadeur, Sp. embajador, LL. ambassiator, ambasciator. See Embassy, and cf. Ambassador.]
Same as Ambassador.
Stilbon, that was a wise embassadour,
Was sent to Corinth.
Chaucer.
Myself my king's embassador will go.
Dryden.
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