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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024mes•sen•ger /ˈmɛsəndʒɚ/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- a person who carries messages or parcels.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024mes•sen•ger (mes′ən jər),USA pronunciation n. - a person who carries a message or goes on an errand for another, esp. as a matter of duty or business.
- a person employed to convey official dispatches or to go on other official or special errands:a bank messenger.
- [Naut.]
- a rope or chain made into an endless belt to pull on an anchor cable or to drive machinery from some power source, as a capstan or winch.
- a light line by which a heavier line, as a hawser, can be pulled across a gap between a ship and a pier, a buoy, another ship, etc.
- [Oceanog.]a brass weight sent down a line to actuate a Nansen bottle or other oceanographic instrument.
- [Archaic.]a herald, forerunner, or harbinger.
v.t. - to send by messenger.
- Anglo-French; Old French messagier. See message, -er2
- Middle English messager, messangere 1175–1225
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged bearer, courier.
messenger, + v.t. - to send by messenger.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: messenger /ˈmɛsɪndʒə/ n - a person who takes messages from one person or group to another or others
- a person who runs errands or is employed to run errands
- a carrier of official dispatches; courier
Etymology: 13th Century: from Old French messagier, from message |