messenger

[ mes-uhn-jer ]
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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.

  1. Nautical.

    • 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.

  2. Oceanography. a brass weight sent down a line to actuate a Nansen bottle or other oceanographic instrument.

  3. Archaic. a herald, forerunner, or harbinger.

verb (used with object)
  1. to send by messenger.

Origin of messenger

1
1175–1225; Middle English messager, messangere<Anglo-French; Old French messagier.See message, -er2

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messenger

/ (ˈmɛsɪndʒə) /


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

  1. a carrier of official dispatches; courier

  2. nautical

    • a light line used to haul in a heavy rope

    • an endless belt of chain, rope, or cable, used on a powered winch to take off power

  3. archaic a herald

Origin of messenger

1
C13: from Old French messagier, from message

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