Persona Grata Definition

grätə, grătə
personae gratae
adjective
Fully acceptable or welcome, especially to a foreign government.
The diplomat was persona grata.
American Heritage
noun
A person who is acceptable or welcome; esp., a foreign diplomat acceptable to the government to which he or she is assigned.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Persona Grata

Noun

Singular:
persona grata
Plural:
personae gratae

Origin of Persona Grata

  • Late Latin persōna grāta Latin persōna person Latin grāta feminine of grātus acceptable

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Persona Grata Sentence Examples

  • He thus became a persona grata with the party in power; he was already a colonel of dragoons, and in 1792 he was given a command in the army of the North.

  • The maharaja was passionately fond of sport, and his shooting parties were celebrated, while he himself became a persona grata in English society.

  • Tostis pamphlet was known to represent papal ideas, and Tosti himself was persona grata to the Italian government.

  • He was a man of exemplary life and a friend of Erasmus and the humanists, besides being a persona grata at the court of Louise of Savoy and Francis I.

  • His position in Italy was similar to that of Bishop Dupanloup in France; and, as but a moderate supporter of the policy enunciated in the Syllabus, he was not altogether persona grata to Pius IX.

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