attaché

UK/əˈtæʃeɪ/US/ˌætæˈʃeɪ/

noun

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

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

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Meanings

nounattaché (plural attachés)

plural attachés · alternative attache

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

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

    1 more example

    One of the commercial attachés of the Department of Commerce in South America transmits the name and address of an engineer who desires to receive full information relative to an automotor for an interurban railway.

    1915, Commerce Reports, volume 2, number 115, page 784

Origin

  1. Frenchattaché
  2. Englishattaché

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

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Translations

Arabic مُلْحَق
  • مُلْحَق (mulḥaq)diplomatic officer
Bulgarian аташе́
  • аташе́ (atašé)diplomatic officer
Catalan agregat
  • agregatdiplomatic officer
Chinese Mandarin 隨員 /随员, 參贊 /参赞
  • 隨員 /随员 (suíyuán)diplomatic officer
  • 參贊 /参赞 (cānzàn)diplomatic officer
Czech atašé, přidělenec
  • atašédiplomatic officer
  • přidělenecdiplomatic officer
Danish attaché
  • attachédiplomatic officer
Dutch attaché
  • attachédiplomatic officer
Esperanto ataŝeo
  • ataŝeodiplomatic officer
Estonian atašee
  • atašeediplomatic officer
Finnish attasea
  • attaseadiplomatic officer
French attaché
  • attachédiplomatic officer
German Attaché, Gesandtschaftsbeamter
  • Attachédiplomatic officer
  • Gesandtschaftsbeamterdiplomatic officer
Hebrew נִספָּח
  • נִספָּח (nispákh)diplomatic officer
Hindi अताशे, अटैची
  • अताशे (atāśe)diplomatic officer
  • अटैची (aṭaicī)diplomatic officer
Hungarian attasé
  • attasédiplomatic officer
Icelandic sendiráðsritari
  • sendiráðsritaridiplomatic officer
Indonesian atase
  • atasediplomatic officer
Italian addetto diplomatico
  • addetto diplomaticodiplomatic officer
Japanese アタッシェ
  • アタッシェ (atasshe)diplomatic officer
Korean 주재관, 아타셰
  • 주재관 (jujaegwan)diplomatic officer
  • 아타셰 (atasye)diplomatic officer
Latvian atašejs
  • atašejsdiplomatic officer
Lithuanian atašė
  • atašėdiplomatic officer
Malay atase
  • atasediplomatic officer
Norwegian Bokmål attaché
  • attachédiplomatic officer
Polish attaché
  • attachédiplomatic officer
Portuguese adido
  • adidodiplomatic officer
Romanian ataşat
  • ataşatdiplomatic officer
Russian атташе́
  • атташе́ (attašé)diplomatic officer
Slovak atašé, pridelenec
  • atašédiplomatic officer
  • pridelenecdiplomatic officer
Spanish agregado, agregada
  • agregadodiplomatic officer
  • agregadadiplomatic officer
Swahili mwambata
  • mwambatadiplomatic officer
Swedish attaché
  • attachédiplomatic officer
Turkish ataşe
  • ataşediplomatic officer
Ukrainian аташе́
  • аташе́ (atašé)diplomatic officer
Urdu اَٹَیچی, ٹَیچی
  • اَٹَیچی (aṭaicī)diplomatic officer
  • ٹَیچی (ṭaicī)diplomatic officer
  • اَٹَاچی (aṭācī)diplomatic officer
Vietnamese tuỳ viên
  • tuỳ viêndiplomatic officer

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with attaché

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Cite this entry
APA

attaché. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/attach%C3%A9

MLA

“attaché.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/attach%C3%A9. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “attaché,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/attach%C3%A9.

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