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# emissary

«emissary» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person sent to carry a message or do an official errand…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (emissaries)

### meaning for a pupil

An emissary is a person sent to carry a message or do an official errand for someone else. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emissary/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a messenger sent by a king, or by a fairy or spirit, to carry news

### examples

- The king sent an emissary to the neighbouring land. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emissary/#x1)
- The fairy's emissary brought a letter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emissary/#x2)
- Fortune's emissary knocked at the door. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emissary/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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