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A person who carries a message
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courier
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., from Anglo-French courrier , from Old French coreor , ultimately an agent noun from Latin currere "to run" (see current (adj.)).
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Courier was a magazine published in Britain during the period 1938-1951, by Norman Kark Publications, Grand Buildings, Trafalgar Square, London. It was printed mainly on art paper and continued to be produced throughout World War II , in spite of the ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN service ▪ Mercury prepares to expand at the double WALLASEY-based same-day courier service Mercury Express has embarked on a national expansion. ▪ The courier service is provided free by Stanford. ▪ She picked up ...
Usage examples of courier.
A courier had been dispatched from Hong Kong twelve hours ago with secret orders to murder Sultan Aji Abbas and his family.
Frasconis as a courier to Ulster went over to the Barbera side of things.
Auguste de Stael lodged at the house of the postmaster of Chambery, and as the Emperor was expected in the course of the night, he gave orders that he should be called up on the arrival of the first courier.
At any rate, I now believe we can, in a matter of a few months, modify the powerplants of our major Raehaniv combattant ships, enabling them to attain a continuous-displacement performance comparable to the present capabilities of our courier ships.
Her letter had been delivered by hand from the mail ship by special courier, inevitably a relation of their compradore, Gordon Chen.
Fassa, wrapped in her satisfied thoughts, took one step forward before she took in the glitter of silver and corycium braid against the deep-space black of a Courier Service uniform.
I had sent couriers to Cracow, Three Walls, and Legnica, but so far none of them had returned.
He was a senior specialist in chicanery and cajolery, trained to the incisive efficiency and boldness that characterized Dagenham Couriers and reflected the ruthlessness of its founder.
Commanded and paid by the IP to isolate himself, Dagenham had abandoned research and built the colossus of Dagenham Couriers, Inc.
She sent couriers mounted upon swift steeds to inform each of the neighboring Dales of what had taken place in Ravenfield and of the events which had brought it all to pass.
The First Consul had sent a brevet of general of division to Duroc by a special courier, who went to Holland, through which the newly-made general had to pass on his return from St.
Cimmaron System, thirty-two light-years distant in Einsteinian space but an effectively-instantaneous warp transit away, awaiting the courier drone that would summon them when the moment was right.
A Prussian courier from Ligny enters, who is conducted into the tent to WELLINGTON.
The Roman historians have also recited the extraordinary feats of the couriers of their times.
Enron found himself looking once again at the softer, fleshier features of the courier Kluge.