the office or term (either individually or collectively) of any officials styled Consul, since Roman antiquity
French Consulate, the government of republican France from 1799 to 1804, when First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte crowned himself Emperor
the office, comparable in some senses to an embassy, of a Consul (representative), official representative of a state outside its territory and not present in the capital of the host country (which would be called an embassy or High Commission)