EMBASSY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does embassy mean? 

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

1. a diplomatic building where ambassadors live or work

2. an ambassador and his entourage collectively

  Familiarity information: EMBASSY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMBASSY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A diplomatic building where ambassadors live or work

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

diplomatic building (government building in which diplomats live or work)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An ambassador and his entourage collectively

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

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

commission; delegacy; delegation; deputation; mission (a group of representatives or delegates)

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

High Commission (an embassy of one British Commonwealth country to another)

 Context examples 

He was, I understood, of Spanish descent and connected in some way with the embassy.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The French or the Russian embassy would pay an immense sum to learn the contents of these papers.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Some time after, three grand embassies came to the old king’s court, with rich gifts of gold and precious stones for his youngest son; now all these were sent from the three kings to whom he had lent his sword and loaf of bread, in order to rid them of their enemy and feed their people.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

About three weeks after this exploit, there arrived a solemn embassy from Blefuscu, with humble offers of a peace, which was soon concluded, upon conditions very advantageous to our emperor, wherewith I shall not trouble the reader.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Then I made my way to town and called at the Spanish embassy.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He made his way to Woking by the first train, and having examined his booty and assured himself that it really was of immense value, he had concealed it in what he thought was a very safe place, with the intention of taking it out again in a day or two, and carrying it to the French embassy, or wherever he thought that a long price was to be had.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“When my wife and the household left yesterday for Flushing they took the less important with them. I must, of course, claim the protection of the embassy for the others.”

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The light shone vividly into the opened safe, and the secretary of the embassy gazed with an absorbed interest at the rows of stuffed pigeon-holes with which it was furnished.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)