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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The body of diplomatic personnel in residence at a nation's capital.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the body of diplomatic personnel

Examples

  • “At six-thirty that evening, a thunderclap of cannon fire from the Cairo Citadel called the local diplomatic corps to Tawfik’s investiture.”

    Simon & Schuster: Three Empires on the Nile

  • “The big man then turned to his aide, one of those phlegmatic, sleek-haired, blue-blooded types the diplomatic corps treasures, and an unexpected sparkle bloomed in his eye.”

    O Jerusalem

  • “He was the pleasantest, and most conversible member of the diplomatic corps while I was there: a man of good fancy, acuteness, irony, cunning, and egoism: no heart, not much of any science, yet enough of every one to speak it's language.”

    Letters

  • “Government notables filled the high-domed and elegantly chandeliered banquet hall: NASA and other space program officials, more Cabinet members than sometimes attended Cabinet meetings, governors of forty-four states including California governor Ronald Reagan, members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, diplomatic corps members representing eighty-three nations, and a battery of Congressional leaders.”

    Simon & Schuster: First Man

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