Usually means: Carrier of information between entities.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word messenger:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. messenger: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. messenger: Merriam-Webster
  3. messenger: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. messenger: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. messenger: Collins English Dictionary
  6. messenger: Vocabulary.com
  7. Messenger, messenger: Wordnik
  8. messenger: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. messenger: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. messenger: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Messenger, messenger: Dictionary.com
  12. messenger: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. messenger: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. MESSENGER, Messenger (Edwin McCain album), Messenger (Joe Pug Album), Messenger (Joe Pug album), Messenger (novel), Messenger (surname), Messenger, The Messenger (Daniel Silva novel), The Messenger (Johnny Marr album), The Messenger (Kurt Elling album), The Messenger (Linkin Park song), The Messenger (Markus Zusak novel), The Messenger (Silva novel), The Messenger (Zusak novel), The Messenger (magazine), The Messenger (newspaper), The Messenger (sculpture in Sutton), The Messenger (song), The Messenger (video game), The Messenger: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Messenger: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. messenger: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. messenger: Rhymezone
  18. messenger: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. messenger: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. MESSENGER: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. messenger: FreeDictionary.org
  22. messenger: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. messenger: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. messenger: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. Messenger, messenger: Wiktionary
  26. messenger: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Messenger (probe), messenger: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Messenger: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  2. Messenger (probe), messenger: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. messenger: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Messenger (probe), messenger: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MESSENGER: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. messenger: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Messenger: Easton Bible

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. messenger: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Messenger: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  3. Messenger, Messenger: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See messengering as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  One who brings messages.
noun:  The secretary bird.
noun:  The supporting member of an aerial cable (electric power or telephone or data).
noun:  (law) 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.
noun:  (computing) An instant messenger program.
noun:  (figurative) A forerunner or harbinger.
noun:  A light scudding cloud preceding a storm.
noun:  A piece of paper, etc., blown up a string to a kite.
noun:  (nautical) A light line with which a heavier line may be hauled e.g. from the deck of a ship to the pier.
noun:  (oceanography) A weight dropped down a line to close a Nansen bottle.
noun:  (Scotland) A messenger-at-arms.
noun:  (bowling) A pin which travels across the pin deck to knock over another pin, usually for a strike.
verb:  (transitive) To send something by messenger.
noun:  A surname originating as an occupation for a messenger.
noun:  (rare) A male given name of historical usage.

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