Messenger
['mesɪn(d)ʒə] or ['mɛsndʒɚ]
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) One who, or that which, foreshows, or foretells.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Emissary, express, courier.[2]. Harbinger, forerunner, herald.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Courier, carrier, emissary, harbinger, herald, forerunner
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Examples
- You will be my messenger? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- When the notes were due, a messenger came around from the bank with the note and a protest pinned to it for $1. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The doctor-seeking messenger meets the doctor halfway, coming under convoy of police. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The lightning is made his swift messenger, and thought flashes in submarine depths around the world. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- You are the quickest messenger I know, and will get to Temple Bar long before I can. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The letter which had been the messenger of death for Milverton lay, all mottled with his blood, upon the table. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I went out, as I had proposed, to meet the messenger with my letter from London at the lodge gate. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- But there was something in the manner of her messenger, that made me suspect that all was not right. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- What have you been, besides a messenger? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The messenger waited near me while I was reading to receive his directions when I had done. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- This is a messenger from Mr. Pickwick, Sir. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Mr. Chopper and his principal were talking over the matter between George and his father, at the very moment when Dobbin's messenger arrived. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She dismissed the messenger to his own devices, and rode away to her old home. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The messenger that brought it, said would you be so good as read it by my lantern? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Half an hour after the messenger had gone the Count returned to Blackwater Park. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- This dispatch was sent in triplicate, by different messengers. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I could see messengers running swiftly through the audience, and as they passed the nobles there unsheathed their swords and sprang into the arena. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- He left the messengers at the gate, and saw them admitted by the porter. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Through this opening no doubt the Confederate commanders had been able to get messengers under cover of night. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Messengers went off for her physician and medical man. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The messengers returned alone. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- On both of which errands, quick messengers depart. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- We can imagine something of the coming and going of messengers, the issuing of futile orders, the changes of plan, throughout the day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But the press itself, and its servitors and messengers, speeding on the wings of electricity, are the children of the inventors. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- And _my_ brother, your uncle--poor soul, I trust this will rouse him--messengers must be despatched to fetch them. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- In tall buildings the multitude of messengers and the frequent passing in and out would demand the increase in elevator facilities and even the enlargement of halls and doorways. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Poor men always use messengers instead of the post. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It is my own conviction that these impressions under which you are smarting are messengers from God to bring you back to the true Church. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Even the winds are his messengers, and they serve him in these hours of darkness. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He sent swift messengers to assassinate the old man before he could hear of his son's death! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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