ambassador

noun

am-ˈba-sə-dər How to pronounce ambassador (audio)
Definition of ambassadornext
as in envoy
a person sent on a mission to represent another a beloved entertainer who has often been sent abroad by the president as his country's goodwill ambassador

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Recent Examples of ambassador The program also views Mike as an ambassador for tiger conservation, using his presence to help visitors understand the threats facing wild tigers and their habitats. — Lauren Paige Richeson, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026 Fertitta says despite his wide-ranging business success, the US ambassador to Italy has had his eye on the job for a long time, ever since learning more about his own Italian roots. — CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2026 Andre Francois Giroux, Canada’s most recent ambassador, was among the decree’s most outspoken critic. — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2026 Created in collaboration with the International Fencing Federation and World Para Fencing, ambassadors will introduce new audiences to the sport ahead of the Games returning to American soil after more than three decades. — Tanya Fedak, Variety, 26 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for ambassador
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ambassador
  1. envoy
  2. representative
  3. delegate
  4. minister
Noun
  • Ten years ago, Frank Lowenstein, then the United States special envoy for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, presented President Barack Obama with maps of settlements by Israeli Jews in the occupied West Bank.
    — David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Former Vice President Mike Pence and ex-special envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg were also in Kyiv for meetings.
    — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 24 Aug. 2026
Definition of envoy
Noun
  • Hutton said Calumet College regularly sends representatives to the school to monitor it, including its governance system and academic programs.
    — Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Fifty-one contestants — one representative from each of the 50 states, plus the District of Columbia — vied for the crown.
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of representative
Noun
  • This came before Nataraja played delegates the trailer of The Great British Bake Off‘s seventeenth season, which is due to launch in coming weeks.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 27 Aug. 2026
  • But the process falls apart when a company has to scale up, delegate, or is mostly remote.
    — K.H. Koehler, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of delegate
Noun
  • The groundbreaking ceremony for the facility was held in the national capital on Tuesday attended by India’s civil aviation minister Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu.
    — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Flory Mapamboli, a Congolese lawmaker and former treasury adviser to the finance minister, said the conditions had already been met for some financing, but the money was still not being disbursed.
    — Ruben Nyanguila, semafor.com, 26 Aug. 2026
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