courier
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Letters
- 7
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Definition of courier
8 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- A person who delivers messages.
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noun
- A person who delivers messages.
- A company that delivers messages.
- A company that transports goods.
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(Internet)A user who earns access to a topsite by uploading warez.
“You can always find musicians. There are more trackers than coders, pixelers, organizers, couriers, and designers combined.”
“These sites have enormous hard drives and bandwidth for couriers to distribute the software from one site to the next.”
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A person who looks after and guides tourists.
“"A courier!" cried Muscari, laughing. "Is that the last of your list of trades? And whom are you conducting?"”
verb
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(transitive)To deliver by courier.
“We'll have the contract couriered to you.”
“Workcest is a huge no no, things will never go back to their easy ways and all of a sudden your report that’s meant to be couriered to Belfast is taking snail mail… through Thailand.”
name
- (uncountable)A monospace font that resembles the characters produced by a typewriter.
- (countable)A surname originating as an occupation.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From a convergence of Middle English corour, currour, from Old French coreor, agent noun of corir (“to run”), and Middle English courier, a borrowing of Middle French courrier, from Italian corriere.
Words you can make from courier
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