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consulate

UK/ˈkɒnsjʊlət/US/ˈkɑnsəlɪt/
nounB2+Common in everyday speech and writing · #3,728 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: consulates

A consulate is the office of a country's representative in a foreign city. Go to the consulate, the British consulate, a consulate general.

It differs from an embassy, since an embassy is in the capital and deals with the government while a consulate is in another city and deals with people and paperwork. Visas and lost passports are consulate business.

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Definitions of consulate

  1. 1nounconsulateThe office of a country's representative in a foreign city.B2+

    “She went to the consulate in Milan to renew her passport.”

consulate is an office.

Where it comes from

Latin consulatus comes from consul, an official of the Roman republic.

  1. French

    consulat

  2. Latin

    consulātus

  3. Middle English

    consulat

  4. English, today

    consulate

From Middle English consulat, consulate, from Latin consulātus, from consul + -ātus. In some senses, via French consulat. by surface analysis, consul + -ate.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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consulate in the wild

  • A consulate is the office of a consul.

    Consulate

  • The term "consulate" may refer not only to the office of a consul, but also to the building occupied by the consul and the consul's staff.

    Consulate

  • The Russian Federation has one of the largest networks of embassies and consulates of any country.

    List of diplomatic missions of Russia

  • The consuls stopped their services in the late 1920s; the U.S. government seized the records of the consulates.

    List of diplomatic missions of Russia

  • Moscow hosts 148 embassies, with numerous countries maintaining consulates general and consulates in Saint Petersburg and other cities throughout the country.

    List of diplomatic missions in Russia

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.