messenger
Syllables: mes·sen·gerUK/ˈmɛs.ən.d͡ʒə//ˈmɛs.ən.d͡ʒɚ/
messenger noun: one who brings messages.
Noun
messenger (plural messengers)
- One who brings messages.
- The secretary bird.
- The supporting member of an aerial cable (electric power or telephone or data).
- 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.
- The Messenger under the joint Commission of Bankruptcy might have seized the Whole, if they had remained in their Warehouse(Can we date this quote?), James Burrow, Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench
- An instant messenger program.
- The 4 primary messengers include ^([sic]) AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, Yahoo! Messenger, and MSN Messenger.2006, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Sexual exploitation of children over the Internet, page 395
- Have them meet you on your favorite messenger program. IMs provide a means of instant chat without waiting on someone to respond back to you.2010, Tim Collins, A Woman's Guide to Internet Dating, A Male Perspective, page 49
- A forerunner or harbinger.
- a messenger of doom
- A light scudding cloud preceding a storm.
- A piece of paper, etc., blown up a string to a kite.
- A light line with which a heavier line may be hauled e.g. from the deck of a ship to the pier.
- A weight dropped down a line to close a Nansen bottle.
- A messenger-at-arms.
- A pin which travels across the pin deck to knock over another pin, usually for a strike.
Verb
messenger (third-person singular simple present messengers, present participle messengering, simple past and past participle messengered)
- To send something by messenger.
- I'll messenger over the signed documents.
Proper noun capitalized: Messenger
Messenger (plural Messengers)
- A surname originating as an occupation for a messenger.
- A male given name of historical usage.
messenger meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
messenger in Hindi
- one who brings messages
- संदेशवाहक sandeśvāhak, रसूल rasūl, हरकारा harkārā, दूत dūt
messenger in Tamil
- தூதுவன், செய்தி கொண்டு வருபவன், செல்பவர்
messenger in Marathi
- संदेशवाहक, संदेशवाहतूक
messenger in Urdu
- one who brings messages
- پَیام نِگار payām nigār, قاصِد qāsid, رَسُول rasūl, ہَرْکارَہ harkāra
More languagesFewer languages
- messenger in Bengali
- বার্তাবহ, প্রেষ্য, বেয়ারা, অগ্রদূত
- messenger in Telugu
- వార్తావహుడు vārtāvahuḍu, దూత dūta
- messenger in Malayalam
- ദൂതൻ dūtaṉ
- messenger in Kannada
- ದೂತ dūta
- messenger in Punjabi
- ਸੰਦੇਸ਼ਵਾਹਕ
- messenger in Gujarati
- દૂત dūt
- messenger in Odia
- ସ୍ପର୍ଶ sparśa
- messenger in Sanskrit
- दूत dūta
- messenger in Nepali
- सन्देशवाहक, म्यासेन्जर, मेसेन्जर
- messenger in Pashto
- پېک peyk, رسول rasúl, ټپالي ṭapālí, راستولی rāstawǝ́lay
- messenger in Tagalog
- mensahero, sugo
- messenger in Arabic
- رَسُول rasūl, قَاصِد qāṣid
- messenger in Malay
- utusan, pengutus
- messenger in Thai
- ผู้แจ้งข่าว pûu-jɛ̂ɛng-kàao, ผู้ส่งสาร pûu-sòng-sǎan
- messenger in Vietnamese
- người chuyển giao, người báo tin, người đưa tin, người đem tin
- messenger in Myanmar
- တမန် ta.man, ဆက်သား hcaksa:
- Kashmiri
- رَسوٗل rasūl, دٟتھ dụ̄th
Examples of messenger in a sentence
- My brother's hobby is raising domestic pigeons, some for show, and others as messengers.
- I know you won't like this news, but please don't shoot the messenger.
- The cavalry messenger dismounted after his moon blindness made it unsafe to ride on through the wilderness.
Forms of messenger
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | messengers |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | messengers |
| present participle | messengering |
| past participle | messengered |
| past | messengered |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Messengers |
Origin of messenger
From Middle English messengere, messingere, messangere, from Old French messanger, a variant of Old French messagier (French messager), equivalent to message + -er. Doublet of messager. Displaced native Old English boda (“messenger, envoy”) and ǣrendraca (“messenger, ambassador”). For the replacement of -ager with -enger, -inger, -anger, compare passenger, harbinger, scavenger, porringer. This development may have been merely the addition of n, or it may have resulted due to contamination from other suffixes such as Middle English -ing and the rare Old French -ange, -enc, -inge, -inghe (“-ing”) for Old French -age (“-age”).
Words formed from messenger
- chemical messenger
- corbie-messenger
- credible messenger
- death messenger
- don't shoot the messenger
- instant messenger
- intermessenger
- kill the messenger
- messenger bag
- messengerhood
- messengerial
- messengerly
- messenger of death
- messenger pigeon
- messenger RNA
- messengership
- multimessenger
- multi-messenger astronomy
- neuromessenger
- nonmessenger
- raven-messenger
- second messenger
- shoot the messenger
Phrases with messenger
Questions about messenger
- What does messenger mean?
- Messenger means one who brings messages.
- What is messenger in Hindi?
- Messenger in Hindi is संदेशवाहक (sandeśvāhak), रसूल (rasūl), हरकारा (harkārā). See Messenger meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is messenger?
- Messenger can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce messenger?
- Messenger is pronounced /ˈmɛs.ən.d͡ʒɚ/ (US).
- What is the plural of messenger?
- The plural of messenger is messengers.
Words near messenger in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: messenger (page history and authors); Messenger (page history and authors); messenger (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); messenger (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); messenger (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); దూత (Telugu) (page history and authors); ദൂതൻ (Malayalam) (page history and authors); ದೂತ (Kannada) (page history and authors); messenger (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ସ୍ପର୍ଶ (Odia) (page history and authors); messenger (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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