Meaning of MESSENGER
| Pronunciation: | | 'mesinjur
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| | Definition: | | [n] a person who carries a message |
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| | Synonyms: | | courier |
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| | See Also: | | bearer, conveyer, conveyor, dispatch rider, errand boy, herald, messenger boy, process-server, runner, traveler, traveller, trumpeter | |
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| | Definition: | |  Messenger
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| Easton Bible Dictionary |
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| | 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). |
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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