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say it: EM-buh-see
embassy is a noun meaning "a diplomatic building where ambassadors live or work". It is pronounced /ˈɛmbəsi/ — EM-buh-see. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a diplomatic building where ambassadors live or work
an ambassador and his entourage collectively
Forms marked are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for embassy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.