- a person who gives a message to somebody or who delivers messages to people as a job
- a bike/bicycle messenger
- The documents were delivered by bike messenger.
- Don’t blame me for the bad news—I’m just the messenger.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryMessenger is used before these nouns:- bag
- bicycle
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old Northern French messanger, variant of Old French messager, from Latin missus, past participle of mittere ‘send’.Want to learn more?
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Idioms
See messenger in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee messenger in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishshoot the messenger
- to blame the person who gives the news that something bad has happened, instead of the person who is really responsible
- Don't shoot the messenger!
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