MESSENGER


Meaning of MESSENGER in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

messenger boy

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

boy

The first Prime Ministers were messenger boys , but with potentially great influence.

A messenger boy had joined them, was trying to help.

Being a messenger boy just isn't where it's at.

After questioning the messenger boy for some three hours, Berret and Harris released him.

Lord Tebbit calls him Mr Kohl's messenger boy to Copenhagen.

What was so bloody active about being an overblown messenger boy ?

Production and progress A number of entrants to production and progress departments are promoted from humbler positions like messenger boys .

■ VERB

send

Diplomacy represented, in other words, an alternative to force and involved sending messengers from one tribe to the enemy camp.

The boys whose idea death had been were now talking about sending a messenger to the College.

He sent a messenger , a monk, Otto of Salem, to Rome to sound out Innocent.

For the moment I send this messenger .

But perhaps Narouz sent a messenger .

shoot

Criticising Alan for saying how well scum are playing is a bit like shooting the messenger who brings bad news.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Captain Anderson did not come himself, but sent a messenger instead.

In the late afternoon a messenger arrived to inform me that the chief was on his way.

The king's messenger stayed in Rome for further talks.

When he was sixteen Alan got a job as a messenger boy in an advertising agency.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Conrad of Speyer was charged with executing one messenger and detaining others.

Deaver also appeared to act as a messenger between the First lady and her husband, and sometimes even as a surrogate.

Fedora Barbieri with Hina Spani in the role of the messenger .

He placed the bet by messenger .

He will let my messenger go, I am sure.

The role chosen by the teacher here is as neutral as possible, to avoid confrontation, effectively a messenger .

The weaver shook his head but the messenger dared not leave his door till his master's errand had been fulfilled.

Those signals are carried from nerve cell to nerve cell by chemical messengers called neurotransmitters.

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