# ambassade
## English
### Alternative forms

* embassade

### Etymology

From French ambassade. Doublet of embassy.

### Noun

ambassade (plural ambassades)
* (obsolete) The mission of an ambassador.
** 1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall. […], new edition, London: […] B. Law, […]; Penzance, Cornwall: J. Hewett, published 1769, →OCLC:Sir Henry Killigrew, after Ambaſſades and meſſages, and many other employments of peace and warre, in his Princes ſeruice, to the good of his Countrey, hath made choyce of a retyred eſtate
* (obsolete) An embassy.
** 1709-1725, John Strype, Annals of the Reformation in England
    […] thereupon the queen's majesty, trusting that the king of Spain was of the same mind, she did send a solemn ambassade of her privy-counsellors, whereof one was an ancient earl of the realm, the other also an ancient baron of the same, and others of the council of her state […]

### References

* “ambassade”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

## Danish
### Etymology

From French ambassade, from Old French ambassade, from Old Italian ambasciata (“diplomatic mission”), from Old Occitan ambayssada, derivative of ambaissa (“service”); see ambassador.

### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -aːdə

### Noun

ambassade c (singular definite ambassaden, plural indefinite ambassader)
* embassy

#### Derived terms

* ambassaderåd c
* ambassadør c

#### Descendants

* → Greenlandic: ambassade

### Further reading

* “ambassade” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌɑm.bɑˈsaː.də/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: am‧bas‧sa‧de
* Rhymes: -aːdə

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from French ambassade, ultimately replacing ambassaat as the general term.

#### Noun

ambassade f (plural ambassades, diminutive ambassadetje n)
* an embassy, diplomatic legation to permanently represent a foreign state at (the highest) embassador's level
* an ambassadorial mission
* an embassy building

##### Related terms

* ambassadeur m
* ambassadepersoneel n
* ambassaderaad m
* ambassadoriaal m

##### Descendants

* Afrikaans: ambassade
* → Caribbean Javanese: ambasadhe
* → Indonesian: ambasade

### Etymology 2

From ambassaat, influenced by the above and ambassadeur.

#### Noun

ambassade m (plural ambassaden, diminutive ambassaatje n)
* (obsolete) an envoy, spokesman

## French
### Etymology

From Middle French ambassade.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɑ̃.ba.sad/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

ambassade f (plural ambassades)
* an embassy, diplomatic representation in a foreign state, notably headed by an ambassador

#### Derived terms

* conseiller d’ambassade m

#### Related terms

* ambassadeur m

#### Descendants

* → Albanian: ambasadë
* → Belarusian: амбаса́да (ambasáda)
* → Czech: ambásada
* → Danish: ambassade
** → Greenlandic: ambassade
* → Dutch: ambassade
** Afrikaans: ambassade
** → Caribbean Javanese: ambasadhe
** → Indonesian: ambasade
* → English: ambassade
* → Irish: ambasáid
* → Northern Kurdish: ambasad
* → Lithuanian: ambasada
* → Luxembourgish: Ambassade
* → Macedonian: амбасада (ambasada)
* → Malagasy: ambasady
* → Norman: ambassade
* → Norwegian: ambassade
** → Northern Sami: ambassáda
* → Polish: ambasada
* → Romanian: ambasadă
* → Romansch: ambassada
* → Serbo-Croatian: ambasada / амбасада
* → Slovak: ambasáda
* → Swedish: ambassad
* → Ukrainian: амбаса́да (ambasáda)
* → Yiddish: אַמבאַסאַדע (ambasade)

### Further reading

* “ambassade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Middle French
### Etymology

First attested circa 1350 as ambaxade, circa 1420 as ambassade. From Old French ambassade, from Italian ambasciata (“diplomatic mission”).

### Noun

ambassade f (plural ambassades)
* embassy (temporary mission representing a sovereign state)

#### Descendants

* French: ambassade (see there for further descendants)

### References

* ambassade on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

## Norman
### Etymology

Borrowed from French ambassade.

### Noun

ambassade f (plural ambassades)
* (Jersey) embassy

#### Related terms

* ambassadeu (“ambassador”)

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Latin ambactus, via French ambassade.

### Noun

ambassade m (definite singular ambassaden, indefinite plural ambassader, definite plural ambassadene)
* an embassy

#### Related terms

* ambassadør

#### Descendants

* → Northern Sami: ambassáda

### References

* “ambassade” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Latin ambactus, via French ambassade.

### Noun

ambassade m (definite singular ambassaden, indefinite plural ambassadar, definite plural ambassadane)
* an embassy

#### Related terms

* ambassadør

### References

* “ambassade” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.