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All emissary synonyms

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noun emissary

  • representative — a person or thing that represents another or others.
  • ambassador — An ambassador is an important official who lives in a foreign country and represents his or her own country's interests there.
  • messenger — a person who carries a message or goes on an errand for another, especially as a matter of duty or business.
  • agent — A chemical that has a particular effect or is used for a particular purpose can be referred to as a particular kind of agent.
  • delegate — A delegate is a person who is chosen to vote or make decisions on behalf of a group of other people, especially at a conference or a meeting.
  • deputy — A deputy is the second most important person in an organization such as a business or government department. Someone's deputy often acts on their behalf when they are not there.
  • go-between — a person who acts as an agent or intermediary between persons or groups; emissary.
  • intermediary — an intermediate agent or agency; a go-between or mediator.
  • bearer — The bearer of something such as a message is the person who brings it to you.
  • carrier — A carrier is a vehicle that is used for carrying people, especially soldiers, or things.
  • consul — A consul is an official who is sent by his or her government to live in a foreign city in order to look after all the people there that belong to his or her own country.
  • courier — A courier is a person who is paid to take letters and parcels direct from one place to another.
  • front — the foremost part or surface of anything.
  • herald — (formerly) a royal or official messenger, especially one representing a monarch in an ambassadorial capacity during wartime.
  • internuncio — a papal ambassador ranking next below a nuncio.
  • legate — an ecclesiastic delegated by the pope as his representative.
  • rep — Nucleonics. a unit proposed as a supplement to roentgen for expressing dosage of ionizing radiation: subsequently abandoned.
  • scout — a soldier, warship, airplane, etc., employed in reconnoitering.
  • spy — a person employed by a government to obtain secret information or intelligence about another, usually hostile, country, especially with reference to military or naval affairs.
  • hired gun — a person hired to kill someone, as a gunfighter or professional killer.
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