How do you use the word "embassy" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "embassy" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "embassy": My sister works at the United States Embassy in London. The embassy denied political asylum to foreign refugees.

Embassy Meaning

/ˈɛmbəsi/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounThe function or duty of an ambassador.

nounAn organization or group of officials who permanently represent a sovereign state in a second sovereign state or with respect to an international organization such as the United Nations.

Sentence Examples

My sister works at the United States Embassy in London.

The embassy denied political asylum to foreign refugees.

A further 300 people have taken refuge in the US embassy.

CEFR Practice Quiz

The diplomat worked at the French ____ in the capital city of Japan.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

I had to visit the ____ to apply for a travel visa.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Celtic *ambaxtos Gaulish ambaxtosder. Old Occitan ambaissadabor. Old Italian ambasciatader. Old French ambascee Middle French ambasseebor. English ambassy English embassy Modern variant of obsolete ambassy, from Middle French ambassee (“mission, embassy”), from Old French ambascee (also enbassee (“message for a high official, official mission”)) from Old Italian ambasciata, from Old Occitan ambaissada (“embassy”), derived from ambaissa (“message”), from Late Latin ambactia (“service rendered”) (attested also as ambascia, from Proto-Germanic *ambahtiją (“service”), *ambahtaz (“follower, servant”), from Gaulish ambaxtos (“dependant, vassal”, literally “one who is sent around”), from Proto-Celtic *ambaxtos (“servant”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi-h₂eǵ- (“drive around”); compare Latin ambactus, Old Irish amus, amsach (“mercenary, servant”), Welsh amaeth (“tenant farm”)). Doublet of ambassade.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"The King told me, […] That I ſhould have the Character of Ambaſſador Extraordinary, and the ſame Allovvance I ſhou'd have had in Spain: Upon this Offer I made no Demurr, but immediately accepted it, and ſo my Ambaſſy vvas declar'd in May 1674." — 1683, William Temple, “Memoirs of what Pass’d in Christendom, from the War Begun 1672, to the Peace Concluded 1679. Chapter I.”, in The Works of Sir William Temple, […], volume I, London: […] J. Round, J[acob] Tonson, J. Clarke, B[enjamin] Motte, T. Wotton, S[amuel] Birt, and T[homas] Osborne, published 1731, →OCLC, page 379:

"Then go we in to know his embassy; Which I could with a ready guess declare Before the Frenchman speak a word of it." — 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

"By the various Relations, Embaſſies and Voyages of Siam that have been publiſht within theſe laſt Four Years […]" — 1690, “A Relation of the Late Great Revolution in Siam, and the Driving Out of the French”, in A Full and True Relation of the Great and Wonderful Revolution That Hapned Lately in the Kingdom of Siam in the East-Indies, London: Randal Taylor, page 1:

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