messenger

UK: /ˈmɛsɪndʒə^r/ US: /ˈmɛsəndʒɚ/ ,(mes′ən jər)

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mes•sen•ger /ˈmɛsəndʒɚ/   n. [countable]

1. a person who carries messages or parcels.

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mes•sen•ger  (mes′ən jər), n. 

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. [Naut.]
   • 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.
4. [Oceanog.] a brass weight sent down a line to actuate a Nansen bottle or other oceanographic instrument.
5. [Archaic.] a herald, forerunner, or harbinger.

v.t. 

6. to send by messenger.

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

Synonyms

• 1. bearer, courier.

messenger, +v.t. 

1. to send by messenger.

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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
3. a carrier of official dispatches; courier

Etymology: 13th Century: from Old French messagier, from message