expresses

Noun

express (plural expresses)

1. A mode of transportation, often a train, that travels quickly or directly, either on a regular schedule or as a special or excursion. Express trains often pass through stations along the way without stopping at them.
   • I took the express into town.

   Antonyms:

   local, stopper

   1. (Philippines, chiefly Metro Manila) a public utility vehicle, typically a jeepney, that traverses through an expressway
2. A service that allows mail or money to be sent rapidly from one destination to another.
3. An express rifle.
   • "Give me my express," I said, laying down the Winchester, and he handed it to me cocked.1885, H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines
4. (obsolete) A clear image or representation; an expression; a plain declaration.
   • And this [holy communion] being the great myſtery of Chriſtianity, and the onely remanent expreſſe of Chriſts ſacrifice on earth, it is moſt conſonant to the Analogy of the myſtery, that this commemorative ſacrifice be preſented by perſons as ſeparate, and diſtinct in our miniſtery, […]1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, “Section V”, in Clerus Domini: or, A Discourse of the Divine Institution, Necessity, Sacrednesse, and Separation of the Office Ministerial. […], London: […] R[ichard] Royston...
5. A messenger sent on a special errand; a courier.
   • I learned, to my inexpressible terror, that at two o'clock, the day before, an express had been sent to Geraldine by Mr Bergasse, with a letter, which he had received from the Hotel de Romagnecourt.1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 381

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