foreign minister

noun

: a governmental minister for foreign affairs

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Sher Bahadur Deuba—who had served five terms as Nepal’s Prime Minister, most recently in 2022—and his wife, Arzu Rana, the foreign minister in Oli’s cabinet, were beaten savagely in their home. Kapil Komireddi, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025 Our close reading of the 290 speeches by Xi and his foreign ministers Yang Jiechi and Wang Yi from 2012 to 2025—in both their original Chinese and English translations—found no mention of China’s desire to be a hegemon that can unilaterally set global rules. David C. Kang, Foreign Affairs, 19 Sep. 2025 Indeed, at the opening of the conference, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine could not have expressed more gratitude to Trump, as did several key NATO foreign ministers and national security advisers. Thomas Friedman, Mercury News, 18 Sep. 2025 Amid the continuing fallout over Russia’s drone incursion into Poland last week, Poland’s foreign minister on Monday called on NATO countries to impose a no-fly zone over Ukraine to protect Europe from strikes. Colin Meyn, The Hill, 16 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for foreign minister

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First Known Use

1678, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of foreign minister was in 1678

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“Foreign minister.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/foreign%20minister. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.

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foreign minister

noun
: a government minister for foreign affairs

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