ambassador

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The most senior official who represents their country in a foreign country.

   She was appointed ambassador to France last year.

2. 2
   noun

   A person who officially represents an organization, cause, or activity.

   The footballer became an ambassador for the children's charity.

From Middle English ambassadore, from Anglo-Norman ambassadeur, from Old Italian ambassadore, from Old Occitan ambaisador (“ambassador”), derivative of ambaissa (“service, mission, errand”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *ambahtaz (“servant”), from Gaulish ambaxtos, from Proto-Celtic *ambaxtos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi-h₂eǵ- (“drive around”), from *h₂m̥bʰi- (“around”) + *h₂eǵ- (“to drive”). Displaced native Old English ǣrendraca.

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