Words Like EMISSARY

We have put together a list of words that are similar to EMISSARY.

3 Alternative Words Similar to emissary

1 Envoy Noun      Synonym Words Like Envoy
3 Legate Noun      Hyponym

10 definitions of emissary

1 An agent employed to advance, in a covert manner, the interests of his employers; one sent out by any power that is at war with another, to create dissatisfaction among the people of the latter.
2 Exploring; spying.
3 Applied to the veins which pass out of the cranium through apertures in its walls.
4 someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else
5 An agent sent on a mission to represent or advance the interests of another.
6 Emitting; sending out; furnishing an outlet.
7 Of or pertaining to one sent on a mission; exploring; spying.
8 A person sent on a mission, particularly a private mission or business; an agent employed for the promotion of a cause or of his employer's interests: now commonly used in a bad or contemptuous sense, and usually implying some degree of secrecy or chicanery.
9 An outlet for water; a channel by which water is drawn from a lake: as the emissary of the Alban lake.
10 In anatomy, that which emits or sends out; a vessel through which excretion takes place; an excretory or emunctory: chiefly used in the plural. Also emissarium.
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