Messenger (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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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.
  3. 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.
  4. a brass weight sent down a line to actuate a Nansen bottle or other oceanographic instrument.
  5. a herald, forerunner, or harbinger.
verb (used with object)
  1. to send by messenger.
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
  4. 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
  5. a herald
Messenger (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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