Synonyms of legate

legate

noun

ˈle-gət 

as in ambassador

a person sent on a mission to represent another

the legate was charged with a list of objectives to accomplish on behalf of his country

Synonyms & Similar Words

• ambassador
• delegate
• envoy
• representative
• minister
• agent
• emissary
• diplomat
• consul
• nuncio
• procurator
• missionary
• deputy
• attaché
• proxy
• legation
• apostle
• messenger
• spokesperson
• foreign minister
• ambassadress
• deputation
• evangelist
• courier
• chargé d'affaires
• mouthpiece
• detachment

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of legate

However, papal legates—diplomatic representatives—continue their external functions. — Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Apr. 2025

In the 1520s Thomas Wolsey, Cardinal legate of England, drove forward a similar program of moral and financial reform, winding up a further 29 monasteries. — Crawford Gribben, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2022

The Franciscan Plano Carpini, who traveled the empire as papal legate in 1246, described a draconian tax collector demanding one in three boys from every Russian family, as well as unmarried women. — Colin Thubron, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2021

The wife of the ailing emperor sends an Imperial legate — her nephew — to investigate. — N. K. Jemisin, New York Times, 14 July 2017

That Francis forced Festing’s resignation without deigning to pick up Burke’s gauntlet was further vindication of the Pope, who will soon appoint his own legate to run the Order. — James Carroll, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2017