Definition of "embassy" []

• A building containing the offices of an ambassador and staff. (noun)
• The position, function, or assignment of an ambassador. (noun)
• A mission to a foreign government headed by an ambassador. (noun)
• A staff of diplomatic representatives headed by an ambassador. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "It is known of course to all divines, but not necessarily, perhaps, to every other person, that this turbulent and ambitious patriarch, during what he calls his embassy to Syria, occupied himself in taking down notes of the contents of theological treatises by his predecessors and contemporaries, with his judgments on their merits."
• "She has offices, which she calls her embassy, and there, with a staff of secretaries, she advises, dictates, revises lists, issues thousands of invitations a week during the season, plans entertainments for practically all of New York society that makes a business of pleasure."
• "Harlan's story about the statue at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin that looks down at the French embassy is further proof that watching cagefighting and drinking beer can help history come alive!"