diplomatic corps

1. 1.

   the body of diplomatic personnel

   Synonymsdiplomatic servicecorps diplomatique

   Broadercorps

Questions about diplomatic corps

What does diplomatic corps mean?

diplomatic corps means "the body of diplomatic personnel".

What is another word for diplomatic corps?

Close synonyms include diplomatic service, corps diplomatique. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is diplomatic corps a common word?

diplomatic corps is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.