DELIVERER

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• DELIVERER (noun)
  The noun DELIVERER has 4 senses:

1. a teacher and prophet born in Bethlehem and active in Nazareth; his life and sermons form the basis for Christianity (circa 4 BC - AD 29)

2. a person who rescues you from harm or danger

3. someone employed to make deliveries

4. a person who gives up or transfers money or goods

  Familiarity information: DELIVERER used as a noun is uncommon.

• DELIVERER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A teacher and prophet born in Bethlehem and active in Nazareth; his life and sermons form the basis for Christianity (circa 4 BC - AD 29)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Christ; Deliverer; Good Shepherd; Jesus; Jesus Christ; Jesus of Nazareth; Redeemer; Savior; Saviour; the Nazarene

Instance hypernyms:

Logos; Son; Word (the divine word of God; the second person in the Trinity (incarnate in Jesus))

Hebrew; Israelite; Jew (a person belonging to the worldwide group claiming descent from Jacob (or converted to it) and connected by cultural or religious ties)

prophet (someone who speaks by divine inspiration; someone who is an interpreter of the will of God)

Instance hyponyms:

El Nino (the Christ child)

Derivation:

deliver (save from sins)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who rescues you from harm or danger

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

deliverer; rescuer; savior; saviour

Hypernyms ("deliverer" is a kind of...):

benefactor; helper (a person who helps people or institutions (especially with financial help))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "deliverer"):

christ; messiah (any expected deliverer)

Derivation:

deliver (free from harm or evil)

deliver (save from sins)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Someone employed to make deliveries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

deliverer; delivery boy; deliveryman

Hypernyms ("deliverer" is a kind of...):

employee (a worker who is hired to perform a job)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "deliverer"):

carrier; newsboy (a boy who delivers newspapers)

coalman (someone who delivers coal)

grocery boy (a delivery boy for groceries)

iceman (someone who cuts and delivers ice)

carrier; letter carrier; mail carrier; mailman; postman (a man who delivers the mail)

milkman (someone who delivers milk)

paperboy (a boy who sells or delivers newspapers)

Derivation:

deliver (bring to a destination, make a delivery)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A person who gives up or transfers money or goods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("deliverer" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "deliverer"):

bailor (the person who delivers personal property (goods or money) in trust to the bailee in a bailment)

Derivation:

deliver (bring to a destination, make a delivery)

deliver (to surrender someone or something to another)

 Context examples 

The government of France were greatly enraged at the escape of their victim and spared no pains to detect and punish his deliverer.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

So he journeyed on, thinking of her all the way, and rode so quickly that he did not even see what the road was made of, but went with his horse straight over it; and as he came to the gate it flew open, and the princess welcomed him with joy, and said he was her deliverer, and should now be her husband and lord of the kingdom.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The Turk, amazed and delighted, endeavoured to kindle the zeal of his deliverer by promises of reward and wealth.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Meanwhile the princess was eagerly waiting till her deliverer should come back; and had a road made leading up to her palace all of shining gold; and told her courtiers that whoever came on horseback, and rode straight up to the gate upon it, was her true lover; and that they must let him in: but whoever rode on one side of it, they must be sure was not the right one; and that they must send him away at once.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Felix soon learned that the treacherous Turk, for whom he and his family endured such unheard-of oppression, on discovering that his deliverer was thus reduced to poverty and ruin, became a traitor to good feeling and honour and had quitted Italy with his daughter, insultingly sending Felix a pittance of money to aid him, as he said, in some plan of future maintenance.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He loathed the idea that his daughter should be united to a Christian, but he feared the resentment of Felix if he should appear lukewarm, for he knew that he was still in the power of his deliverer if he should choose to betray him to the Italian state which they inhabited.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Safie resolved to remain with her father until the moment of his departure, before which time the Turk renewed his promise that she should be united to his deliverer; and Felix remained with them in expectation of that event; and in the meantime he enjoyed the society of the Arabian, who exhibited towards him the simplest and tenderest affection.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)