DIPLOMAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does diplomat mean? 

• DIPLOMAT (noun)
  The noun DIPLOMAT has 2 senses:

1. an official engaged in international negotiations

2. a person who deals tactfully with others

  Familiarity information: DIPLOMAT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIPLOMAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An official engaged in international negotiations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

diplomat; diplomatist

Hypernyms ("diplomat" is a kind of...):

functionary; official (a worker who holds or is invested with an office)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "diplomat"):

plenipotentiary (a diplomat who is fully authorized to represent his or her government)

George F. Kennan; George Frost Kennan; Kennan (United States diplomat who recommended a policy of containment in dealing with Soviet aggression (1904-2005))

ambassador; embassador (a diplomat of the highest rank; accredited as representative from one country to another)

persona non grata (a diplomat who is unacceptable to the government to which he is sent)

persona grata (a diplomat who is acceptable to the government to which he is sent)

nuncio; papal nuncio ((Roman Catholic Church) a diplomatic representative of the Pope having ambassadorial status)

diplomatic minister; minister (a diplomat representing one government to another; ranks below ambassador)

internuncio ((Roman Catholic Church) a diplomatic representative of the Pope ranking below a nuncio)

high commissioner (a senior diplomat from one country to another who is assigned ambassadorial rank)

envoy; envoy extraordinary; minister plenipotentiary (a diplomat having less authority than an ambassador)

consul (a diplomat appointed by a government to protect its commercial interests and help its citizens in a foreign country)

charge d'affaires (the official temporarily in charge of a diplomatic mission in the absence of the ambassador)

Instance hyponyms:

Kurt Waldheim; Waldheim (Austrian diplomat who was Secretary General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981; in 1986 he was elected president of Austria in spite of worldwide allegations that he had direct knowledge of Nazi atrocities during World War II (born in 1918))

Adlai Ewing Stevenson; Adlai Stevenson; Stevenson (United States politician and diplomat (1900-1968))

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt; Eleanor Roosevelt; Roosevelt (wife of Franklin Roosevelt and a strong advocate of human rights (1884-1962))

Page; Thomas Nelson Page (United States diplomat and writer about the Old South (1853-1922))

Harold Nicolson; Nicolson; Sir Harold George Nicolson (English diplomat and author (1886-1968))

Lie; Trygve Halvden Lie; Trygve Lie (Norwegian diplomat who was the first Secretary General of the United Nations (1896-1968))

Ferdinand de Lesseps; Lesseps; Vicomte Ferdinand Marie de Lesseps (French diplomat who supervised the construction of the Suez Canal (1805-1894))

Le Duc Tho (Vietnamese diplomat who negotiated with Henry Kissinger to end the war in Vietnam (1911-1990))

Henry Alfred Kissinger; Henry Kissinger; Kissinger (United States diplomat who served under President Nixon and President Ford (born in 1923))

Jay; John Jay (United States diplomat and jurist who negotiated peace treaties with Britain and served as the first chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1745-1829))

Cordell Hull; Hull (United States diplomat who did the groundwork for creating the United Nations (1871-1955))

Harris; Townsend Harris (United States diplomat who was instrumental in opening Japan to foreign trade (1804-1878))

Averell Harriman; Harriman; William Averell Harriman (United States financier who negotiated a treaty with the Soviet Union banning tests of nuclear weapons (1891-1986))

Dag Hammarskjold; Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjold; Hammarskjold (Swedish diplomat who greatly extended the influence of the United Nations in peacekeeping matters (1905-1961))

Grotius; Hugo Grotius; Huig de Groot (Dutch jurist and diplomat whose writings established the basis of modern international law (1583-1645))

Citizen Genet; Edmund Charles Edouard Genet; Genet (French diplomat who in 1793 tried to draw the United States into the war between France and England (1763-1834))

Galbraith; John Galbraith; John Kenneth Galbraith (United States economist (born in Canada) who served as ambassador to India (born in 1908))

Dulles; John Foster Dulles (United States diplomat who (as Secretary of State) pursued a policy of opposition to the USSR by providing aid to American allies (1888-1959))

Bunche; Ralph Bunche; Ralph Johnson Bunche (United States diplomat and United Nations official (1904-1971))

Derivation:

diplomatical (using or marked by tact in dealing with sensitive matters or people)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who deals tactfully with others

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("diplomat" is a kind of...):

go-between; intercessor; intermediary; intermediator; mediator (a negotiator who acts as a link between parties)

Derivation:

diplomatical (using or marked by tact in dealing with sensitive matters or people)

 Context examples 

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(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)