foreign minister

noun

: a governmental minister for foreign affairs

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In June, the secure Signal account of a European foreign minister pinged with a text message. James P. Rubin, Foreign Affairs, 19 Nov. 2025 Talks in Qatar and Turkey to defuse the tensions have yielded no progress, Afghanistan’s foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, said Thursday. Mithil Aggarwal, NBC news, 13 Nov. 2025 Sergei Lavrov was at the time – and still is – Russia's long-serving foreign minister and a close Putin confidant. Zac Anderson, USA Today, 13 Nov. 2025 The Taliban and India’s government had a rare face-to-face meeting in October after a United Nations committee temporarily lifted a travel ban on Afghanistan’s interim foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi. Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 12 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for foreign minister

Word History

First Known Use

1678, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
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 26 Nov. 2025.

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foreign minister

noun
: a government minister for foreign affairs

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