Phrase guide
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noun
A public figure who, as a volunteer, is an advocate for a good cause on behalf of a public organization.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Alternative letter-case form of goodwill ambassador (“as a legal title before a name”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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History
Origin 1927 when Calvin Coolidge, the United States president designated Col. Charles Lindbergh its Goodwill Ambassador during one of his most famous flights. As a compound word representing an honorific title that was merged over time from three lexemes good-will plus ambassador which is still used descriptively by the State of Kentucky to define the Kentucky Colonel as its "ambassador of good-will".
