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Consul vs Minister - What's the difference?

consul | minister |

As nouns the difference between consul and minister

is that consul is consul while minister is minister (a person who is commissioned by the government for public service).

consul

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An official residing in a foreign country in order to protect the interests of citizens from his or her nation.
  • (historical) Either of the two highest-ranking officials of the Roman Republic.
  • (historical) One of the three chief magistrates of France from 1799 to 1804.
  • (obsolete) A senator; a counsellor.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Many of the consuls , raised and met, / Are at the duke's already.
  • * Bible, Job. iii. 14 (Douay version)
    • With kings and consuls of the earth.

    Derived terms

    * consul general * vice-consul

    Related terms

    * consular * consulate

    See also

    * ambassador

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    minister

    English

    Noun

    (en noun) (minister)
  • A person who is trained to perform religious ceremonies at a Protestant church.
  • A politician who heads a ministry (national or regional government department for public service).
  • * (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
    • Ministers to kings, whose eyes, ears, and hands they are, must be answerable to God and man.
  • At a diplomacy, the rank of diplomat directly below ambassador.
  • A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.
  • * Bible, (w) xxiv. 13
    • Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
    • I chose / Camillo for the minister , to poison / My friend Polixenes.

    Related terms

    * ministerial * ministry * ministerium

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To attend to (the needs of); to tend; to take care (of); to give aid; to give service.
    • A newspaper headline: Couple leaves business world to minister to inner-city children
  • to function as a clergyman or as the officiant in church worship
  • (archaic) To afford, to give, to supply.
  • * Bible, 2 Corinthians ix. 10
    • He that ministereth seed to the sower.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • We minister to God reason to suspect us.
  • * 1610 , , act 2 scene 1
    • I do well believe your highness; and did it to / minister occasion to these gentlemen [...] (to give opportunity to these gentlemen)

    See also

    * cleric * father * parson * pastor * priest * vicar

    External links

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    Anagrams

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