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# embassy

«embassy» in Mova's school dictionary: **the official building in a foreign country where an…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (an embassy, embassies)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An embassy is the official building in a foreign country where an ambassador and their staff work to represent their own country. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embassy/#m1)

2) An embassy is also the group of people who work there. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embassy/#m2)

3) An embassy can also mean an important journey or mission on which a person is sent to speak for their country or ruler. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embassy/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and politics lessons: countries keep embassies in each other's capitals; in everyday life, people go to embassies for visas and help abroad; phrases: the British Embassy, the American Embassy.

### examples

- The Ukrainian Embassy is in London. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embassy/#x1)
- My aunt got her visa at the embassy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embassy/#x2)
- If you lose your passport abroad, go to your embassy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embassy/#x3)
- Guards stood outside the embassy gates. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embassy/#x4)
- The ambassador works in the embassy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embassy/#x5)
- I am travelling on a secret embassy, but you must not ask me any questions, for I cannot betray my secret." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embassy/#x6)

### note

Plural: embassies (y → ies). An ambassador leads an embassy. A smaller office in other cities is a «consulate».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «embassy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embassy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.