EMISSARY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does emissary mean? 

• EMISSARY (noun)
  The noun EMISSARY has 1 sense:

1. someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else

  Familiarity information: EMISSARY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMISSARY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

emissary; envoy

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

representative (a person who represents others)

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

legate; official emissary (a member of a legation)

 Context examples 

“I watched at the gate, same as you advised, Mr. Holmes,” said our emissary, the discharged gardener.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Silver briefly agreed, and this emissary retired again, leaving us together in the dark.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

At last I ran away myself, whenever I saw an emissary of the police approaching with some new intelligence; and lived a stealthy life until he was tried and ordered to be transported.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)