Definitions for messenger

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messenger mes·sen·ger

Spelling: [mes-uh n-jer]

IPA: /ˈmɛs ən dʒər/

Messenger is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 177 anagrams from letters in messenger (eeegmnrss).

Definitions for messenger

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:
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. Oceanography. a brass weight sent down a line to actuate a Nansen bottle or other oceanographic instrument.
5. Archaic. a herald, forerunner, or harbinger.

verb (used with object)

1. to send by messenger.

Origin of messenger

1175-1225; Middle English messager, messangere Anglo-French; Old French messagier. See message, -er²

Examples for messenger

Sometimes when there was quarreling between the clans they would not receive a messenger.

I hate to use “passion project,” but Kill the messenger does seem like just that for you.

A note came by a messenger who waited for no answer, as he told the yawning maid.

In between the blockbusters, the 43-year-old managed to slip in Kill the messenger.

"For Miss Dennis," said the messenger; but she handed the card to Mrs. Roberts.

The messenger, too, who lends himself to her humour now becomes a proper man.

There had already been a documentary on the case that aimed to do just that, as if killing the messenger would mute the message.

As important as the messenger is here, the message—jobs—is even more so.

“If an angel be a messenger of God, I trow he is one,” said Tibble.

I believe the backlash here has more to do with the messenger than the products themselves.