messages

Noun

message (plural messages)

1. A communication, or what is communicated; any concept or information conveyed.
   • We've just received an urgent message from the President.
2. An errand.
   • I had been on a message for my father, and was walking home along the road, when I saw a tall, fine lassie coming over the bogland on the right hand side of the road.1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 27
3. (Caribbean, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland, in plural) An errand to a shop, a shopping expedition; an item of shopping; (in plural) groceries.
   • On week days he did messages between the house in Carysfort Avenue and those shops in the main street of the town with which the family dealt.1916, James Joyce, chapter II, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC
4. An underlying theme or conclusion to be drawn from something.
   • The main message of the novel is that time heals all wounds.

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