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messenger

[ mes-uhn-jer ]

noun

  1. a person who carries a message or goes on an errand for another, especially as a matter of duty or business.

    Synonyms: ,

  2. a person employed to convey official dispatches or to go on other official or special errands:

    a bank messenger.

  3. Nautical.
    1. 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.
    2. 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.
  4. Oceanography. a brass weight sent down a line to actuate a Nansen bottle or other oceanographic instrument.
  5. Archaic. a herald, forerunner, or harbinger.


verb (used with object)

  1. to send by messenger.

messenger

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noun

  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. a carrier of official dispatches; courier
  4. nautical
    1. a light line used to haul in a heavy rope
    2. an endless belt of chain, rope, or cable, used on a powered winch to take off power
  5. archaic.
    a herald
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of messenger1

1175–1225; Middle English messager, messangere < Anglo-French; Old French messagier. See message, -er 2
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of messenger1

C13: from Old French messagier, from message
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The well-meaning messengers posing this query mean to protect fragile work addressing issues of race, but they implicitly send another message.

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Meanwhile, Snow White’s signature costume is so brightly saturated that it’s blinding; it appears especially bizarre when she tromps around the woods with a hoodie-clad Jonathan and his troupe of merry Brooklyn bicycle messengers.

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“California is implementing a unique model that leverages trusted local messengers to communicate directly with workers,†said California Labor Secretary Steward Knox in a Tuesday statement.

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Trump and his propagandists and other surrogates and messengers fill in his story with all kinds of facts and figures, many of which are not true, just pulled out of the ether.

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Writing on messenger app Telegram on Saturday, Zelensky said it was "very important for us that Ukraine is heard and that no one forgets about it, neither during the war nor after".

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