Messenger Definition

mĕsən-jər
messengers
noun
messengers
A person who carries a message or goes on an errand.
Webster's New World
A person whose work is delivering telegrams, official dispatches, or the like.
Webster's New World
A bearer of news.
American Heritage
A harbinger; forerunner.
Webster's New World
A prophet.
American Heritage
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verb
To send by messenger.
American Heritage
To send something by messenger.
I'll messenger over the signed documents.
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Messenger

Noun

Singular:
messenger
Plural:
messengers

Origin of Messenger

  • Middle English messanger from Old French messagier from message message message

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old French messagier (French: messager), from message.

    From Wiktionary

Messenger Sentence Examples

  • Their messenger won't wait long.

  • The messenger rushed across the street to deliver his package to the man on the corner.

  • Memon waved the messenger away.

  • A messenger was at once sent from Edinburgh to London with a letter from Lethington and a verbal message.

  • Glinka, the editor of the Russian Messenger, who was recognized (cries of "author! author!" were heard in the crowd), said that "hell must be repulsed by hell," and that he had seen a child smiling at lightning flashes and thunderclaps, but "we will not be that child."

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MMEMES

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