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courier

noun
/ˈkʊ.ɹi.ə/UK/ˈkʊɹ.i.ɚ/US/ˈkʉː.ɹi.əɹ/

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.

  1. derived from corriere
  2. derived from courrier
  3. inherited from courier
  4. derived from coreor
  5. inherited from corour

Definitions

  1. A person who delivers messages.

  2. A company that delivers messages.

  3. A company that transports goods.

  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. 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.

    2. 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?"

    3. 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.

    4. A monospace font that resembles the characters produced by a typewriter.

    5. A surname originating as an occupation.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for courier. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA