envoy

«envoy» in Mova's school dictionary: a person sent by a government or a ruler to take a… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (an envoy, envoys)

meaning for a pupil

1) An envoy is a person sent by a government or a ruler to take a message to another country or to talk for them. tree →

2) A special envoy is someone sent to deal with one problem, such as peace talks. tree →

sense in the lessons

In history and news lessons envoys carry messages between kings, presidents or the United Nations to make deals or stop wars. In stories an envoy brings news from a far kingdom. Phrases: «special envoy», «peace envoy», «UN envoy».

examples

• The king sent an envoy to the queen of the next kingdom. tree →
• A UN envoy is trying to arrange peace talks. tree →
• The envoy brought a letter from the emperor. tree →
• The president's special envoy visited the region. tree →
• Envoys travelled for weeks on horseback in the old days. tree →
• The envoy was treated as an honoured guest. tree →
• Should you send an envoy to the island he will take ten years to get there and ten more to return—twenty years in all. tree →

note

Countable: an envoy, envoys (y → s, because there is a vowel before the y). Pronounced «EN-voy». Similar: ambassador, diplomat, messenger. An ambassador lives in the other country; an envoy is often sent for a particular job.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «envoy» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.