- 1(old-fashioned diplomatist) a person whose job is to represent his or her country in a foreign country, for example, in an embassy Wordfinderallyaccord, ally, bilateral, cross-border, diplomat, embassy, international, rapprochement, relationship, treaty Oxford Collocations Dictionary adjectivechief, prominent, senior, … verb + diplomatbe, serve as, work as, … See full entry
- 2a person who is skilled at dealing with other people You’ll need to be a real diplomat to persuade them to come to some agreement. Oxford Collocations Dictionary adjectivechief, prominent, senior, … verb + diplomatbe, serve as, work as, … See full entry Word Originearly 19th cent.: from French diplomate, back-formation from diplomatique ‘diplomatic’, from Latin diploma from Greek diplōma ‘folded paper’, from diploun ‘to fold’, from diplous ‘double’.Extra examples Washington’s top diplomat in Havana a Western diplomat in Islamabad the chief Cuban diplomat in the United States two of the world’s most prominent diplomats
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