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mes·sen·ger
(mĕs′ən-jər)n.
1. One that carries messages or performs errands, as:
a. A person employed to carry telegrams, letters, or parcels.
b. A military or official courier.
c. An envoy to another person, party, or government.
2. A bearer of news.
3. A forerunner; a harbinger: the crocus and other messengers of spring.
4.
a. A prophet.
b. Messenger Islam Muhammad. Used with the.
5. Nautical A chain or rope used for hauling in a cable. Also called messenger line.
tr.v. mes·sen·gered, mes·sen·ger·ing, mes·sen·gers
To send by messenger.
[Middle English messanger, from Old French messagier, from message, message; see message.]
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messenger
(ˈmɛsɪndʒə)n
1. a person who takes messages from one person or group to another or others
2. a person who runs errands or is employed to run errands
3. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a carrier of official dispatches; courier
4. (Nautical Terms) nautical
a. a light line used to haul in a heavy rope
b. an endless belt of chain, rope, or cable, used on a powered winch to take off power
5. (Historical Terms) archaic a herald
[C13: from Old French messagier, from message]
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mes•sen•ger
(ˈmɛs ən dʒər)n.
1. a person who conveys messages or parcels.
2. a light line for pulling a heavier line to a ship, pier, etc.
3. Archaic. a herald or forerunner.
v.t. 4. to send by messenger.
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messenger
- apostle - Comes from Greek apostolos, "messenger."
- bode - Boda is messenger in Germanic, hence "bode"; at first, a bode was a command—then an omen or premonition.
- enunciate - Derives from Latin nuntius, "messenger."
- angel - The word angel was one of the earliest Germanic adoptions from Latin; originally from Greek aggelos, "messenger," it first meant "hireling" or "messenger."
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| Noun | 1. |  messenger - a person who carries a message dispatch rider - a messenger who carries military dispatches (usually on a motorcycle) herald, trumpeter - (formal) a person who announces important news; "the chieftain had a herald who announced his arrival with a trumpet" bearer - a messenger who bears or presents; "a bearer of good tidings" errand boy, messenger boy - a boy who earns money by running errands process-server - someone who personally delivers a process (a writ compelling attendance in court) or court papers to the defendant runner - a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents; "he sent a runner over with the contract" |
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messenger
noun courier, agent, runner, carrier, herald, envoy, bearer, go-between, emissary, harbinger, delivery boy, errand boy The document is to be sent by messenger.
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messenger
nounThe American Heritage® Roget's Thesaurus. Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Translations
رَسُوُلٌرَسول، حامِل رِسالَه
kurýrposel
budbringer
lähetti
kurir
sendiboîi, boîberi
使者
메신저
glasnik
budbärare
คนส่งข่าว
người đưa tin
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
messenger
[ˈmɛsɪndʒər] n (= bringer of news) → messager/ère m/f
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
messenger
n
→ Bote m (old, form), → Botin f (old, form), → Überbringer(in) m(f), → (einer Nachricht); (Mil) → Kurier(in) m(f); bank messenger → Bankbote m → /-botin f; don’t shoot the messenger (fig) → lassen Sie Ihren Zorn an dem Verantwortlichen aus
(Med, Biol) → Botenstoff m
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
message
(ˈmesidʒ) noun1. a piece of information spoken or written, passed from one person to another. I have a message for you from Mr Johnston.
2. the instruction or teaching of a moral story, religion, prophet etc. What message is this story trying to give us?
ˈmessenger (-sindʒə) noun a person who carries letters, information etc from place to place. The king's messenger brought news of the army's defeat.
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messenger
→ رَسُوُلٌ kurýr budbringer Bote αγγελιαφόρος mensajero lähetti messager kurir messaggero 使者 메신저 boodschapper bud posłaniec mensageiro посланник budbärare คนส่งข่าว ulak người đưa tin 使者Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
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