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ən noun
1.
a person who carries a message or goes on an errand for another, especially 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.
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.
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World English Dictionary
messenger (ˈmɛsɪndʒə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —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. | a carrier of official dispatches; courier |
| 4. | 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. | archaic a herald |
| [C13: from Old French messagier, from | |
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Word Origin & History
messenger
early 13c., 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).
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Easton
Bible Dictionary
Messenger definition
(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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Example sentences
Messenger has already revealed plenty of tantalising information.
One of its jobs is to act as a messenger carrying genetic information from a cell's nucleus to the machinery which makes proteins.
But the messenger resembled a friendly alien possessed of uncanny intuitive gifts that seemed normal only to him.
The survivors released a messenger buoy and smoke bombs and waited, hoping desperately that someone would see them.
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