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attaché

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /əˈtæʃeɪ/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • General-American: /ˌætæˈʃeɪ/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -eɪ

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noun

Meaning 1

A diplomatic officer, usually one who plays a specific role.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • Little did anyone suspect that the military attaché was one of the world's craftiest spies.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French attaché (literally “attached”).

Across languages

Translations

63 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: atashe — diplomatic officer
  • Arabic: مُلْحَق (mulḥaq) — diplomatic officer
  • Armenian: կցորդ (kcʻord) — diplomatic officer
  • Azerbaijani: attaşe — diplomatic officer
  • Belarusian: аташэ́ (atašé) — diplomatic officer
  • Bulgarian: аташе́ (atašé) — diplomatic officer
  • Catalan: agregat — diplomatic officer
  • Chinese Mandarin: 隨員 /随员 (suíyuán) — diplomatic officer
  • Chinese Mandarin: 參贊 /参赞 (cānzàn) — diplomatic officer
  • Czech: atašé — diplomatic officer
  • Czech: přidělenec — diplomatic officer
  • Danish: attaché — diplomatic officer
  • Dutch: attaché — diplomatic officer
  • Esperanto: ataŝeo — diplomatic officer
  • Estonian: atašee — diplomatic officer
  • Finnish: attasea — diplomatic officer
  • French: attaché — diplomatic officer
  • Georgian: ატაშე (aṭaše) — diplomatic officer
  • German: Attaché — diplomatic officer
  • German: Gesandtschaftsbeamter — diplomatic officer
  • Hebrew: נִספָּח (nispákh) — diplomatic officer
  • Hindi: अताशे (atāśe) — diplomatic officer
  • Hindi: अटैची (aṭaicī) — diplomatic officer
  • Hungarian: attasé — diplomatic officer
  • Icelandic: sendiráðsritari — diplomatic officer
  • Ido: atasheo — diplomatic officer
  • Indonesian: atase — diplomatic officer
  • Italian: addetto diplomatico — diplomatic officer
  • Japanese: アタッシェ (atasshe) — diplomatic officer
  • Kazakh: атташе (attaşe) — diplomatic officer
  • Khmer: អនុព័ន្ធ (ʼaʼnupŏən) — diplomatic officer
  • Korean: 주재관 (jujaegwan) — diplomatic officer
  • Korean: 아타셰 (atasye) — diplomatic officer
  • Kyrgyz: атташе (attaşe) — diplomatic officer
  • Latvian: atašejs — diplomatic officer
  • Lithuanian: atašė — diplomatic officer
  • Macedonian: аташе́ (atašé) — diplomatic officer
  • Malay: atase — diplomatic officer
  • Maltese: attaxè — diplomatic officer
  • Norwegian Bokmål: attaché — diplomatic officer
  • Iranian Persian: آتاشِه (âtâše) — diplomatic officer
  • Polish: attaché — diplomatic officer
  • Portuguese: adido — diplomatic officer
  • Romanian: ataşat — diplomatic officer
  • Russian: атташе́ (attašé) — diplomatic officer
  • Serbo-Croatian: ата̀ше̄ — diplomatic officer
  • Serbo-Croatian: atàšē — diplomatic officer
  • Slovak: atašé — diplomatic officer
  • Slovak: pridelenec — diplomatic officer
  • Slovene: ataše — diplomatic officer
  • Spanish: agregado — diplomatic officer
  • Spanish: agregada — diplomatic officer
  • Swahili: mwambata — diplomatic officer
  • Swedish: attaché — diplomatic officer
  • Tajik: атташе (attaše) — diplomatic officer
  • Turkish: ataşe — diplomatic officer
  • Turkmen: attaşe — diplomatic officer
  • Ukrainian: аташе́ (atašé) — diplomatic officer
  • Urdu: اَٹَیچی (aṭaicī) — diplomatic officer
  • Urdu: ٹَیچی (ṭaicī) — diplomatic officer
  • Urdu: اَٹَاچی (aṭācī) — diplomatic officer
  • Uzbek: attashe — diplomatic officer
  • Vietnamese: tuỳ viên — diplomatic officer