Legation Synonyms

lĭ-gāshən
A diplomatic office or headquarters in a foreign country
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. mission
The post or office of legate
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. committee
  2. deputation
  3. legateship
  4. foreign mission
  5. assignment

Words Related to Legation

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. commission
  2. politics
  3. delegation
  4. installation
  5. consul-general
  6. vice-consul
  7. embassy
  8. attaché

Legation Sentence Examples

  • The rest of the Europeans crowded into the British legation for their own safety.

  • At intervals from 1793 to 1801 Lang was closely connected with the Prussian statesman Hardenberg, who employed him as his private secretary and archivist, and in 1 797 he was present with Hardenberg at the congress of Rastadt as secretary to the legation.

  • By the institution of the special mission of Lord Ashburton, however, the direct negotiations between the two governments were, about the time of Everett's arrival in London, transferred to Washington, though much business was transacted at the American legation in London.

  • He succeeded, however, in obtaining priest's orders at Rome in 1832, and returned to Ireland, but subsequently went to London, officiating for some time in the chapel of the Bavarian Legation.

  • To these may be added a series of short essays, entitled Discorsi politici, composed during Guicciardini's Spanish legation.

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