The President will be meeting with foreign diplomats.
He's a talented architect but a poor diplomat.
Recent Examples on the WebBorn in 1871 in Jacksonville, Johnson was a prolific author, a musical theater song writer, a U.S. diplomat in Latin America under the Roosevelt administration, the first Black man to sit for the Florida bar and the first executive director of the NAACP.—Camellia Burris, Miami Herald, 23 May 2024 His father was an American diplomat, and when the Communists took over China later that year, the family escaped by boat down the Pearl River.—Trip Gabriel, New York Times, 21 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for diplomat
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Word History
Etymology
French diplomate, back-formation from diplomatique
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