About The Word Messenger
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Messenger
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What's The Definition Of Messenger?
[n] a person who carries a message
Synonyms | Synonyms for Messenger: courier Related Terms | Find terms related to Messenger: ancestor | announcer | antecedent | avant-garde | bellwether | buccinator | buccinator novi temporis | bushwhacker | commissar | commissary | commissionaire | commissioner | courier | delegate | emissary | envoy | explorer | forebear | foregoer | forerunner | foreshadower | front runner | frontiersman | fugleman | go-between | gofer | groundbreaker | guide | harbinger | herald | Hermes | innovator | intermediary | lead runner | leader | legate | Mercury | minister | nuncio | page | pathfinder | Pheidippides | pioneer | point | precedent | precursor | predecessor | premonitor | presager | runner | scout | secretary | stormy petrel | trailblazer | trailbreaker | vanguard | vaunt-courier | voortrekker See Also | bearer | conveyer | conveyor | dispatch rider | errand boy | herald | messenger boy | process-server | runner | traveler | traveller | trumpeter Messenger In Webster's Dictionary \Mes"sen*ger\, n. [OE. messager, OF. messagier, F.
messager. See {Message}.]
1. One who bears a message; the bearer of a verbal or written
communication, notice, or invitation, from one person to
another, or to a public body; specifically, an office
servant who bears messages.
2. One who, or that which, foreshows, or foretells.
Yon gray lines That fret the clouds are messengers
of day. --Shak.
3. (Naut.) A hawser passed round the capstan, and having its
two ends lashed together to form an endless rope or chain;
-- formerly used for heaving in the cable.
4. (Law) A person appointed to perform certain ministerial
duties under bankrupt and insolvent laws, such as to take
charge og the estate of the bankrupt or insolvent.
--Bouvier. Tomlins.
Syn: Carrier; intelligencer; courier; harbinger; forerunner;
precursor; herald.
{Messenger bird}, the secretary bird, from its swiftness.
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