HIGH COMMISSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does High Commission mean? 

• HIGH COMMISSION (noun)
  The noun HIGH COMMISSION has 1 sense:

1. an embassy of one British Commonwealth country to another

  Familiarity information: HIGH COMMISSION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIGH COMMISSION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An embassy of one British Commonwealth country to another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("High Commission" is a kind of...):

embassy (an ambassador and his entourage collectively)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)