It's not as if an emissary from outer space will have slipped into school uniform and be loitering around seeking a partner.
Source: tatoeba (327999)
Emissary
//ˈɛmɪs(ə)ɹi//
Synonyms for "emissary" (64 found)
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Related words (32)
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11 entriesTranslations
45 translations across 26 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- مَبْعُوث noun (an agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else)
Belarusian
2 entries- эміса́р noun (an agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else)
- эміса́рка noun (an agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else)
Bulgarian
4 entries- емиса́р noun (an agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else)
- емиса́рка noun (an agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else)
- пра́теник noun (an agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else)
- пра́теница noun (an agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 伻 noun (an agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else)
- 使者 noun (an agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else)
Czech
2 entries- emisar noun (an agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else)
- emisař noun (an agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else)
Danish
2 entries- sendebud noun (an agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else)
- udsending noun (an agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else)
Dutch
1 entries- afgezant noun (an agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else)
Egyptian
1 entries- wp:p-w-t:y-D54-A1 noun (an agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else)
Esperanto
1 entries- sendito noun (an agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else)
Finnish
1 entries- lähettiläs noun (an agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else)
French
1 entries- émissaire noun (an agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else)
German
3 entries- Abgesandter noun (an agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else)
- Emissär noun (an agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else)
- Emissärin noun (an agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else)
Greek
3 entries- αγγελιοφόρος noun (an agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else)
- απεσταλμένος noun (an agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else)
- εκφορητικός πόρος noun (a venous channel in the skull)
Japanese
1 entries- 使者 noun (an agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else)
Korean
1 entries- 사자 noun (an agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else)
Latin
1 entries- emissarius noun (an agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else)
Macedonian
2 entries- пратеник noun (an agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else)
- пратеничка noun (an agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- sendebud noun (an agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- رسول noun (an agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else)
Polish
2 entries- emisariusz noun (an agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else)
- emisariuszka noun (an agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else)
Portuguese
1 entries- emissário noun (an agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else)
Russian
3 entries- посла́нник noun (an agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else)
- посла́нница noun (an agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else)
- эмисса́р noun (an agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else)
Slovak
1 entries- emisár noun (an agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else)
Spanish
2 entries- emisaria noun (an agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else)
- emisario noun (an agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else)
Swedish
2 entries- emissarie noun (an agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else)
- sändebud noun (an agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else)
Ukrainian
2 entries- еміса́р noun (an agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else)
- еміса́рка noun (an agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
An emissary from a distant solar system has contacted us.
Source: tatoeba (10463312)
What I think is really exciting about this is that, after two centuries of observing this fuzzy little blob of light among the stars, Earth now has a robotic emissary in orbit at Vesta.
Source: tatoeba (11140632)
The president sent an emissary to renegotiate the terms.
Source: tatoeba (13247349)
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