messenger
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Use the noun messenger to refer to someone who brings you a message. Your mail carrier delivering a postcard and your gossipy friend calling to give you the latest news can each be described as a messenger.
Delivering messages for others is certainly a time-honored profession, since even the gods of Antiquity needed someone to do it — the Greeks had Hermes and the Romans had Mercury as their messenger gods. A messenger carries a message, and that's where the word itself comes from: the Latin root of message is missus, which means "a sending away, sending, dispatching" and is the past participle of mittere, "send."
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a person who carries a messagesynonyms: couriertypes:dispatch ridera messenger who carries military dispatches (usually on a motorcycle)bearera messenger who bears or presentsprocess-serversomeone who personally delivers a process (a writ compelling attendance in court) or court papers to the defendantrunnera person who is employed to deliver messages or documents
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