Messenger

Noun

 * 1) One who brings messages.
 * 2)  A light line with which a heavier line may be hauled e.g. from the deck of a ship to the pier.
 * 3) The supporting member of an aerial cable (electric power or telephone or data).

Derived terms

 * instant messenger

Verb

 * 1)  To send something by messenger.
 * I'll messenger over the signed documents.

Adjectives for Messenger
celestial; gracious; convenient; pure; winged; mindful; bonded; dusky; mourning; surly; arbitrating; angelic; trustworthy; distempered; shining; impatient; giddy; mystical; special; courageous; strong; churlish; guiltless; awe-stricken; wing-footed; breathless; welcome; better.

Verbs for Messenger
appoint—; assign—; consign to—; delegate —; dispatch—; —apprizes of; —bears; — communicates with; —confirms; —conveys; ——declares; —delivers; —embarks; —forwards; —heralds; —imparts; —informs; — races; —reports; —reveals; —speeds; — transfers; —wings.

Thesaurus
Hermes, Mercury, Pheidippides, ancestor, announcer, antecedent, avant-garde, bellwether, buccinator, buccinator novi temporis, bushwhacker, commissar, commissary, commissionaire, commissioner, courier, delegate, emissary, envoy, explorer, forebear, foregoer, forerunner, foreshadower, front runner, frontiersman, fugleman, go-between, gofer, groundbreaker, guide, harbinger, herald, innovator, intermediary, lead runner, leader, legate, minister, nuncio, page, pathfinder, pioneer, point, precedent, precursor, predecessor, premonitor, presager, runner, scout, secretary, stormy petrel, trailblazer, trailbreaker, vanguard, vaunt-courier, voortrekker

Etymology
From messagier (French: messager), from message.

Translations

 * Ancient Greek: ἄγγελος
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: missatger, missatgera
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 信使
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: boodschapper
 * Finnish: lähetti, sanansaattaja, kuriiri
 * French:
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:


 * Icelandic: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: (, sisha) lit. "messenger"; メッセンジャー
 * Korean: 메신저
 * Latin:, nuntius
 * Norwegian:
 * Old Provençal:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: посыльный,,  гонец,  связной,  курьер, мессенджер
 * Serbian: glasnik, glasnica
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,