envoy
1a diplomatic agent.
any accredited messenger or representative.
Also called envoy extraordinary, minister plenipotentiary. a diplomatic agent of the second rank, next in status after an ambassador.
Origin of envoy
1Other words for envoy
Other definitions for envoy (2 of 2)
or en·voi
a short stanza concluding a poem in certain archaic metrical forms, as a ballade, and serving as a dedication, or a similar postscript to a prose composition.
Origin of envoy
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How to use envoy in a sentence
At the end of nearly every section he adds an envoi of his own to drive home the moral more surely.
Guynemer's biography is of such a nature that it must seem like a poem: why not, then, conclude it with an envoi?
Georges Guynemer | Henry BordeauxMais je ne voulais que vous remercier et rpondre votre envoi.
The Letters of Henry James (volume I) | Henry JamesIt is composed of five strophes, identical in arrangement, of eleven verses each, and of an envoi of five verses.
The absence of an envoi will be noticed in Chaucer's, as in most of the medieval English ballades.
British Dictionary definitions for envoy (1 of 2)
/ (ˈɛnvɔɪ) /
Formal name: envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary a diplomat of the second class, ranking between an ambassador and a minister resident
an accredited messenger, agent, or representative
Origin of envoy
1Derived forms of envoy
- envoyship, noun
British Dictionary definitions for envoy (2 of 2)
envoi
/ (ˈɛnvɔɪ) /
a brief dedicatory or explanatory stanza concluding certain forms of poetry, notably ballades
a postscript in other forms of verse or prose
Origin of envoy
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