Synonyms:
embassy
Meaning: a diplomatic building where ambassadors live or work
Usage examples
"Intelligence got that from a spy we'd planted among the embassy servants."
'Monsieur is attached to the Embassy in London?' Lady Georgina inquired, growing affable.
The French Embassy promptly denied this, but one of the City Councillors told me that he himself had procured the officer's release from prison....
Of Sir Magnus it was hinted that he was afraid of his wife; but in truth he desired it to be understood that all the disagreeable things done at the Embassy were done by Lady Mountjoy, and not by him.
Nothing short of an embassy on behalf of the great coverts of his country would have kept this master away at present; and now, his diplomacy having succeeded, he hurried back to make the most of its results.
On the morning of May 1, 1915, Americans were astounded to see in the newspapers an advertisement, signed by the German Imperial Embassy, warning travelers of the dangers in the war zone and notifying them that any who ventured on British ships into that area did so at their own risk.
The same summer the Aetolians, who before the Athenian expedition had sent an embassy to Corinth and Lacedaemon, composed of Tolophus, an Ophionian, Boriades, an Eurytanian, and Tisander, an Apodotian, obtained that an army should be sent them against Naupactus, which had invited the Athenian invasion.