minister plenipotentiary

1. 1.

   a diplomat having less authority than an ambassador

   Synonymsenvoyenvoy extraordinary

   Broaderdiplomat

Questions about minister plenipotentiary

What does minister plenipotentiary mean?

minister plenipotentiary means "a diplomat having less authority than an ambassador".

What is another word for minister plenipotentiary?

Close synonyms include envoy, envoy extraordinary. 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 minister plenipotentiary a common word?

minister plenipotentiary 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.