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emissary - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Noun

emissary (plural emissaries)

• An agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else.
  • ✤ The small group around Ch’en Tu-hsiu that had remained at headquarters hastily sent an emissary —Chang Kuo-t’ao—to Nanch’ang. Though Chang set out immediately, he did not reach Nanch’ang until July 31, the day before the rising.¹
  • Such an agent spreading a gospel.
    • ✤ Near-synonym: missionary
• (anatomy) A venous channel in the skull.
• An underground channel by which the water of a lake escapes.

Etymology

From French émissaire, from Latin emissarius (“agent, scout, spy”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɛmɪs(ə)ɹi/
• (US) IPA: /ˈɛmɪˌsɛɹi/
• Audio (Southern England): 🔊

Printed 2026-06-28.

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Footnotes

1. 1958, Conrad Brandt, “A Defeat out of Victory and a Devil out of the Machine”, in Stalin’s Failure in China, 1924–1927 ‎${}^{[1]}$, number 31, Cambridge, Mass.: Russian Research Center, Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 143: ↩

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