| 单词 | bearer |
| 释义 | bearer (once / 714 pages) 1n 2n A bearer is a person who carries or delivers something. If you hate to be the bearer of bad news, don't become a traffic cop. If you're the flag bearer in a parade, it means you march at the front gripping a flag, and a coffin bearer holds one end of the coffin at a funeral. You'll often find the word in the phrase "bearer of bad news" or "bearer of bad tidings." In the mid-17th century, the word bearer was primarily used to mean "person who carried dead bodies to the grave." WORD FAMILYbearer: bearers+/bear: bearable, bearer, bearing, bearish, bears, borne, forebear, overbear/bearable: bearably, unbearable/bearing: bearings, nonbearing/bearish: bearishly/forebear: forebears/overbear: overbearing, overbears, overbore, overborne/overbearing: overbearingly, overbearingness/unbearable: unbearably USAGE EXAMPLESWhichever ethnic group you look at, these local names reveal a wealth of information about the bearer. BBC(Dec 29, 2016) Voters concluded that an ideology-free businessman would turn hope into change better than yet another bearer of liberal orthodoxy. Wall Street Journal(Dec 21, 2016) These bearers of gifts really get on my nerves. Washington Post(Dec 16, 2016) 1 1n a messenger who bears or presents a bearer of good tidings Hyper courier, messenger a person who carries a message 2n someone whose employment involves carrying something Syn|Hyper carrier, toter traveler, traveller a person who changes location 3n one of the mourners carrying the coffin at a funeral 2Syn|Hyper pallbearer griever, lamenter, mourner, sorrower a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died) n the person who is in possession of a check or note or bond or document of title that is endorsed to him or to whoever holds it the bond was marked `payable to bearer' Syn|Hyper holder capitalist a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business) |
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