'Messenger' definitions:
Definition of 'Messenger'
From: GCIDE
- Messenger \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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. One who, or that which, foreshows, or foretells. [1913 Webster]
- Yon gray lines That fret the clouds are messengers of day. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Law) A person appointed to perform certain ministerial duties under bankrupt and insolvent laws, such as to take charge of the estate of the bankrupt or insolvent. --Bouvier. Tomlins. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Carrier; intelligencer; courier; harbinger; forerunner; precursor; herald. [1913 Webster]
- Messenger bird, the secretary bird, from its swiftness. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Messenger'
From: Easton
- Messenger (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).
Synonyms of 'messenger'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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