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Another word for consul

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Noun
      1. An agent sent on a mission to represent or advance the interests of another.
      2. A person or agent sent on a specific mission
      1. ​representative
      2. A minister plenipotentiary assigned to a foreign embassy, ranking next below the ambassador.
      3. An agent sent by a government or ruler to transact diplomatic business; specif., a diplomat (envoy extraordinary) ranking just below an ambassador
      1. An official emissary, especially an official representative of the pope.
      2. (Rom. History) The governor of a province, or his deputy
      3. An envoy or ambassador
    See also:

    representative

    diplomat

    delegate

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Sentence Examples

  • consul in Yokohama, who visited the islands in 1875.

  • It was largely owing to Consalvi's combined firmness and tact that the Concordat, as ultimately signed, was free from the objectionable clauses on which the First Consul had at first insisted.

  • The son of the last king, Gaius Julius Antiochus Epiphanes Philopappus, was Roman consul for A.D.

  • GAIUS LICINIUS CALVUS STOLO, Roman statesman, the chief representative of the plebeian Licinian gens, was tribune in 377 B.C., consul in 361.

  • The proxenus is generally compared to the modern consul or minister resident.

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