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messenger 音標拼音: [m'ɛsəndʒɚ] [m'ɛsɪndʒɚ] n. 報信者,使者 報信者,使者 messenger n 1: a person who carries a message [ synonym: { messenger}, { courier}] 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] 58 Moby Thesaurus words for " messenger": Hermes, Mercury, Pheidippides, 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, innovator, intermediary, lead runner, leader, legate, minister, nuncio, page, pathfinder, pioneer, point, precedent, precursor, predecessor, premonitor, presager, runner, scout, secretary, stormy petrel, trailblazer, trailbreaker, vanguard, vaunt- courier, voortrekker |
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