Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun envoy
3 senses of envoy
Sense 1
envoy, envoy extraordinary, minister plenipotentiary -- (a diplomat having less authority than an ambassador)
=> diplomat, diplomatist -- (an official engaged in international negotiations)
Sense 2
emissary, envoy -- (someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else)
=> representative -- (a person who represents others)
Sense 3
envoy, envoi -- (a brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry)
=> stanza -- (a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem)