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Definition: Diplomat |
DiplomatNoun1. An official engaged in international negotiations. 2. A person who deals tactfully with others. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "diplomat" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
19th Century Satire | An international liar, with an elastic conscience and a rubber neck. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
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The De Soto was a brand of automobile based in the United States of America, marketed by the Chrysler Corporation from 1928 through 1960.The De Soto make was founded by Walter P. Chrysler on August 4, 1928. It was named after the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto. Chrysler wanted to enter the brand in the competition with the arch rivals Oldsmobile, Nash and Pontiac. Intially, this was quite a success. But because the make was often fitted with the same body work as the Plymouth and Dodge, it lost its individual character.
The production of De Sotos ceased on November 30, 1960.
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Diplomacy is the conduct of negotiations between persons, groups, or nations. Used formally, it usually refers to international diplomacy, the conduct of international relations through the intercession of (usually) professional diplomats.Once concerned most prominently with royal dynastic marriage-alliances and questions of war and peace, diplomacy now concerns itself more with issues of trade and culture.
An ambassador is the most senior diplomatic rank. (See the list of ambassadors.)
In an informal or social sense, diplomacy often refers to the phrasing of statements in a tactful, non-confrontational, or social manner.
See also:
- Foreign policy doctrine
- Diplomatic mission
- Diplomatic immunity
- Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations
- Diplomacy (game).
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Diplomacy."
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A diplomat is someone involved in diplomacy between two countries; the collective term for a group of diplomats from a single country is a diplomatic mission.Since the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, diplomats have had diplomatic immunity which protects them from being persecuted or prosecuted while on a diplomatic mission.
In times of hostility diplomats are often withdrawn for reasons of personal safety, and in some cases diplomats are withdrawn when the host country is friendly but there is a threat from internal dissidents. Ambassadors and other diplomats are also sometimes recalled by their home countries as a statement of displeasure with the country they have been serving in.
Famous diplomats include:
See also: Ambassador, Consul, Nuncio
- Henry Kissinger (United States)
- James Bryce (United Kingdom)
- Joseph Marie De Maistre (France)
- Dag Hammarskjold (Sweden)
- Hubert Languet (France)
- Raoul Wallenberg (Sweden)
- Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand (France)
External link
- http://www.ediplomat.com/
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
DIPLOMAT | English | European Charter for Telework | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: DiplomatSynonym: diplomatist (n). (additional references) |
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Screenplays | The best diplomat I know is a fully activated phaser bank (Star Trek; writing credit: Walter Black; William Hamilton) | |
Lyrics | You used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat (Like a Rolling Stone; performing artist: Bob Dylan) Your diplomat ("Like a Rolling Stone"; performing artist: Bob Dylan) Madman drummers bummers Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat (Blinded By The Light (Bruce Springsteen); performing artist: MANFRED MANN) | |
Clever | A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Operation Diplomat (1953) Dippy Diplomat (1945) Daphne und der Diplomat (1937) The Littlest Diplomat (1936) Slippery Slim -- Diplomat (1914) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Our ambidextrous diplomat. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | William Woodville Rockhill, American diplomat, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, seated at desk. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Hon. James Rolph, Jr., Governor of the State of California--Mayor of San Francisco for 19 years--native son--business man, diplomat and executive. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Westin Diplomat Resort and Spa" by Terry Eaton Commentary: "Westin Diplomat Resort and Spa. Hollywood, Florida, U.S.A." |
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Peter Ustinov | A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally. |
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Civil Liberties | Yemen | At the time of his second arrest, al-Zaidi's Marib-based tribe was holding a Western diplomat whom it had kidnaped in July. (references) |
Gambia | On August 22, the Government expelled a foreign diplomat following his attendance at a press conference of a coalition of opposition parties. (references) | |
Economic History | Sudan | The U.S. embassy is headed by a Charge d'affaires, and U.S. diplomat are not resident in Khartoum at this time but make periodic visits from Nairobi and Cairo. (references) |
Human Rights | Syria | The diplomat confirmed Dawud's presence and saw no signs of torture. (references) |
Korea | In March 1999, North Korean officials in Thailand tried to detain a Bangkok-based North Korean diplomat, Hong Sun Gyong, and his family. (references) | |
Yemen | However, in 2000 a Norwegian diplomat on vacation was killed near Sana'a during an exchange of fire between checkpoint police and his abductors. (references) | |
Minorities | Libya | Africans in particular have become targets of resentment, and in October mobs of citizens in several locations reportedly killed 150 African workers, including a Chadian diplomat. (references) |
Political Economy | Sudan | In December 2000, government forces broke up a meeting of NDA representatives with a foreign diplomat, detained the diplomat briefly, and eventually expelled him from the country; they also arrested seven NDA representatives. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Diplomat" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.79% of the time. "Diplomat" is used about 330 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.79% | 326 | 15,930 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.61% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.61% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 330 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "diplomat": career diplomat ♦ diplomat pudding ♦ professional diplomat. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "diplomat": ex-diplomat, soldier-diplomat. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "diplomat"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | diplomat (diplomatic, diplomatist). (various references) | |
Arabic | حسن تدبير, اللبق, دبلوماسي (diplomatic, trifle). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | дипломат (diplomatist). (various references) | |
Chinese | 外交官 . (various references) | |
Czech | diplomat (diplomatist). (various references) | |
Dutch | diplomaat. (various references) | |
Esperanto | diplomato. (various references) | |
Farsi | سیاستمدار (Politician, Statesman), رجل سیاسی (Statesman), دیپلمات . (various references) | |
Finnish | diplomaatti. (various references) | |
French | diplomate (diplomat pudding, diplomatist). (various references) | |
German | diplomat (diplomate). (various references) | |
Greek | διπλωμάτησ (diplomatist), διπλωμάτης. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מדינאי (statesman), דיפלומט. (various references) | |
Hungarian | diplomata (diplomatist). (various references) | |
Indonesian | diplomat. (various references) | |
Irish | taidhleoir. (various references) | |
Italian | diplomatico (diplomatic, diplomatist). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 外交使節 , 外交官 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | がいこうしせつ, がいこうかん. (various references) | |
Korean | 외교관. (various references) | |
Manx | diplomagh. (various references) | |
Papiamen | diplomátiko. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iplomatday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | diplomata (attache, diplomatist, politic, tactful). (various references) | |
Romanian | diplomat (certificated, diplomated, diplomatic). (various references) | |
Russian | дипломат (diplomatist). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | diplomata. (various references) | |
Spanish | diplomático (diplomatic, diplomatist, politic, tactful). (various references) | |
Swedish | diplomat (diplomatist). (various references) | |
Thai | นักการทูต (attache, emissary). (various references) | |
Turkish | diplomat (diplomatist), díplomat, uluslararası ilişkiler uzmanı, insan ilişkilerinde usta kimse (diplomatist). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | дипломатична людина (diplomatist), дипломат (attache case, diplomatist). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nhà ngoại giao người khéo giao thiệp (diplomatist), người có tài ngoại giao (diplomatist). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "diplomat": diplomata, diplomate, diplomates, diplomatic, diplomatically, diplomatist, diplomatists, diplomats. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "diplomat": superdiplomat. (additional references) | |
Words containing "diplomat": nondiplomatic, superdiplomats, undiplomatic, undiplomatically. (additional references) | |
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"Diplomat" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: deploma, Diboma, diplom, diploman, diplome, dipylon, lipomata. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "diplomat" (pronounced di"pluma't) |
| 4 | -u m a' t | laundromat. |
| 3 | -m a' t | doormat, format. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-i-l-m-o-p-t" | |
-1 letter: diploma, optimal. | |
-2 letters: amidol, diatom, lipoma, maloti, optima. | |
-3 letters: admit, adopt, amido, dolma, domal, dotal, limpa, milpa, modal, patio, pilot, plaid, plait, podia, tidal. | |
-4 letters: adit, alit, alto, amid, apod, atom, atop, damp, dato, dial, diol, dipt, dita, doat, doit, dolt, dopa, idol, iota, laid, lamp, lati, lido, lima, limo, limp, lipa, load, loam. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-i-l-m-o-p-t" | |
+1 letter: diplomata, diplomate, diplomats. | |
+2 letters: diplomates, diplomatic. | |
+3 letters: complicated, diplomatist. | |
+4 letters: diplomatists, palindromist, postmedieval, temporalized, undiplomatic. | |
+5 letters: complicatedly, endolymphatic, maladaptation, nondiplomatic, palindromists, predominantly, predominately, superdiplomat, uncomplicated. | |
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