messenger
Carries urgent packages
A messenger is someone who carries messages or delivers items from one party to another.
The role is ancient—royal courts had messengers, and gods sent celestial ones.
Today the word often refers to courier services: The contract arrived by messenger.
Messenger also names communication apps: Send it to me on messenger.
To shoot the messenger is to blame the bearer of bad news rather than its source.
Accredited diplomatic representative
- ambassadorOfficial foreign representative
- delegateEntrust authority to another
- heraldOfficial news announcer
- legateOfficial ecclesiastical representative
attaché · plenipotentiary · consul · representative · intermediary · go-between · liaison · negotiator
Pedal-powered two-wheeler
- motorcyclePowered two-wheeler
- parcelWrapped item for shipping
- packageWrapped item for delivery
- dispatchSend with speed
express · delivery · runner · mailbag · satchel · pouch · tracking · overnight
Mail delivery worker
- mailmanPostal delivery worker
- letter carrierPostal delivery worker
- pigeonStout urban bird
- mailbagSack for letters
postal · letters · envelope · mailbox · stamps · postage · deliveryman · carrier pigeon
Formal public announcement
- announcementPublic declaration of information
- harbingerOne who foreshadows
- forerunnerOne that comes before
- precursorSomething that comes first
omen · portent · trumpet · fanfare · town crier · crier · bugle · clarion
Informal verbal exchange
- notificationsAutomated messages announcing events
- textingSending typed mobile messages
- encryptionConverting data into code
- stickersAdhesive-backed paper images
emoji · videocall · groupchat · sync · status · contacts · multimedia · profiles
One who gathers news
- correspondentJournalist covering distant events
- journalistNews profession practitioner
- informantOne who provides intelligence
- sourcePoint of origin
tipster · stringer · press · media · bulletin · update · breaking news · scoop
envoy
Accredited diplomatic representative
- ambassadorOfficial foreign representative
- delegateEntrust authority to another
- heraldOfficial news announcer
legate · attaché · plenipotentiary · consul · representative · intermediary · go-between · liaison · negotiator · dignitary
bicycle
Pedal-powered two-wheeler
- motorcyclePowered two-wheeler
- parcelWrapped item for shipping
- packageWrapped item for delivery
dispatch · express · delivery · runner · mailbag · satchel · pouch · tracking · overnight · speed
postman
Mail delivery worker
- mailmanPostal delivery worker
- letter carrierPostal delivery worker
- pigeonStout urban bird
mailbag · postal · letters · envelope · mailbox · stamps · postage · deliveryman · carrier pigeon · dispatch rider
proclamation
Formal public announcement
- announcementPublic declaration of information
- harbingerOne who foreshadows
- forerunnerOne that comes before
precursor · omen · portent · trumpet · fanfare · town crier · crier · bugle · clarion · foretell
chat
Informal verbal exchange
- notificationsAutomated messages announcing events
- textingSending typed mobile messages
- encryptionConverting data into code
stickers · emoji · videocall · groupchat · sync · status · contacts · multimedia · profiles · usernames
reporter
One who gathers news
- correspondentJournalist covering distant events
- journalistNews profession practitioner
- informantOne who provides intelligence
source · tipster · stringer · press · media · bulletin · update · breaking news · scoop · insider
- communicationtelephone, conversation, inform, hand signal, dialogue
- communication methodsphone line, radio, telephone, television, text
- ancient communicationsmoke signal, hieroglyphs, carrier pigeon, pictographs, pictograms
- castle staffchamberlain, chambermaid, butler, guard, handmaiden
- Courierscourier, mail carrier, postal worker, delivery driver, deliveryman
- deliverycourier, mail, parcel post, postal service, parcel service
- don't shoot the messengerDon't punish the informer
- shoot the messengerBlame the bearer, not source
- shot the messengerPunished informer for tidings
- shooting the messengerPunishing bearer of unwelcome news
- kill the messengerPunish bearer of bad news
- messenger bagShoulder bag with flap
messengers, messenger bag, messengered, messenger bags, messenger RNA