Definitions for Courier

Courier cour·i·er

Spelling: [kur-ee-er, koo r-]
IPA: /ˈkɜr i ər, ˈkʊər-/

Courier is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 97 anagrams from letters in Courier (ceiorru).

Definitions for Courier

noun

  1. a messenger, usually traveling in haste, bearing urgent news, important reports or packages, diplomatic messages, etc.
  2. any means of carrying news, messages, etc., regularly.
  3. the conveyance used by a courier, as an airplane or ship.
  4. Chiefly British. a tour guide for a travel agency.

Origin of Courier

1350-1400; Middle French cour(r)ier Italian corriere, equivalent to corr(ere) to run (Latin currere) + -iere Latin -ārius -ary; replacing Middle English corour Anglo-F

Examples for Courier

Maids, courier, and heavier luggage had been sent on earlier by the branch-line.

On Sunday, April 21, a full-page ad in The Post and courier ran under the headline, “A Personal Message from Mark Sanford.”

“Masters had connections with survivalists,” Grants Pass Daily courier (PDF) reporter Edith Decker wrote in 2010.

Looch is the editor-publisher of an internationally respected lefty newspaper called the Russian courier.

The courier then leads the CIA agents to a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where Maya believes bin Laden is shacked up.

For this, the courier can expect one to three years of prison time for the felony of “promoting prison contraband.”

It was therefore necessary to dispatch a courier to Mexico, and to wait his return.

This will be confirmed by your official attendant, who will be an Envoy's courier.

The courier, with agitation in his voice, announced 'Miss Mairdale!'

The courier in the rumble was not altogether comfortable in his mind.

Word Value for Courier
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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