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envoy - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Noun

envoy (plural envoys)

• (law) A diplomatic agent of the second rank, next in status after an ambassador.
• A representative.
  • ✤ special envoy to the United Nations
  • ✤ In the year 1460 the king Tu-ma-pan (Tumapel?)† sent envoys to carry tribute. When these envoys went back, and had arrived at An-ch’ing,‡ they got drunk and had a fight with foreign priests who came to bring tribute, and of whom six were killed.¹
• A diplomat.
• A messenger.
• (poetry) Alternative spelling of envoi (“short stanza at end of poem”).

Etymology

From French envoyé (“envoy, messenger”), from envoyer (“send”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ˈɛn.vɔɪ/, /ˈɑn.vɔɪ/
• (UK) IPA: /ˈɛn.vɔɪ/, /ˈɒn.vɔɪ/
• Audio (Southern England): 🔊

Printed 2026-06-28.

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Footnotes

1. 1887, W. P. Groeneveldt, “Notes on the Malay Archipelago and Malacca”, in Miscellaneous Papers Relating to Indo-China and the Indian Archipelago ‎${}^{[1]}$, volume I, London: Trübner & Co., →OCLC, page 165: ↩

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