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COURIER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does courier mean?
• COURIER (noun)
The noun COURIER has 1 sense:
1. a person who carries a message
Familiarity information: COURIER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who carries a message
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
courier; messenger
Hypernyms ("courier" is a kind of...):
traveler; traveller (a person who changes location)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "courier"):
conveyer; conveyor (a person who conveys (carries or transmits))
dispatch rider (a messenger who carries military dispatches (usually on a motorcycle))
herald; trumpeter ((formal) a person who announces important news)
bearer (a messenger who bears or presents)
errand boy; messenger boy (a boy who earns money by running errands)
process-server (someone who personally delivers a process (a writ compelling attendance in court) or court papers to the defendant)
runner (a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents)
Context examples
The news you may receive through text, email, courier, or telephone will thrill you.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
It was because nothing daunted him that he had been chosen for government courier.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
There were folk, too, to be met upon the road—beggars and couriers, chapmen and tinkers—cheery fellows for the most part, with a rough jest and homely greeting for each other and for Alleyne.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The post office, couriers and express delivery services like FedEx, UPS, and DHL are also ruled by the winged messenger and see the effects when Mercury goes out of phase.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The courier shook his head dubiously.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
He shook it and grinned sheepishly at the courier, who shrugged his shoulders in sign that they were beaten.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
As courier for the Canadian Government, bearing important despatches, he was anxious to secure the best dogs, and he was particularly gladdened by the possession of Buck.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
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