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mes⋅sen⋅ger

  [mes-uhn-jer]
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–noun
1. a person who carries a message or goes on an errand for another, esp. as a matter of duty or business.
2. a person employed to convey official dispatches or to go on other official or special errands: a bank messenger.
3. Nautical.
a. 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.
b. 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)
6. to send by messenger.
Origin:
1175–1225; ME messager, messangere < AF; OF messagier. See message, -er 2

Synonyms:
1. bearer, courier.
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mes·sen·ger   (měs'ən-jər)   
n.  

  1. One that carries messages or performs errands, as:

    1. A person employed to carry telegrams, letters, or parcels.

    2. A military or official courier.

    3. 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 prophet: the messenger of Allah.

  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.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Word Origin & History

messenger 
c.1225, messager, from O.Fr. messagier, from message (see message). With parasitic -n- inserted by c.1300 for no apparent reason except that people liked to say it that way (cf. passenger, harbinger, scavenger).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: mes·sen·ger
Pronunciation: 'mes-&n-j&r
Function: noun
1 : a substance (as a hormone) that mediates abiological effect —see FIRST MESSENGER, SECOND MESSENGER
2 : MESSENGER RNA
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Bible Dictionary

Messenger

(Heb. mal'ak, Gr. angelos), an angel, a messenger who runs on foot, the bearer of despatches (Job 1:14; 1 Sam. 11:7; 2 Chr. 36:22); swift of foot (2 Kings 9:18).

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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