embassy
n. countablen. the official building where people from one country work while living in another country. You go here if you need help with your passport or a visa while traveling.
n. the official residence or offices of an ambassador and their staff in a foreign country. It serves as the primary diplomatic mission for representing one state within another.
I need to visit the embassy to renew my travel visa.
Protesters gathered outside the embassy to deliver a letter to the ambassador regarding the new trade laws.
The embassy serves as a sovereign enclave where diplomats coordinate bilateral relations and provide essential consular services to citizens residing abroad.
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.
Often used with the definite article 'the' when referring to a specific nation's mission in a city.