Courier

Meaning of Courier

noun
  1. a company or employee of a company that transports commercial packages and documents.
    the cheque was dispatched by courier
    a courier service
  2. a person employed to guide and assist a group of tourists.
    he worked as a courier on a package holiday to Majorca
verb
  1. send (goods or documents) by courier.
    your order can be couriered to you in three days

late Middle English (denoting a person sent to run with a message): originally from Old French coreor ; later from French courier (now courrier ), from Italian corriere ; based on Latin currere ‘to run’.

Information about Courier

  • Languages ​​in which Courier is used:

    (Press the button to hear it)

Hyphenation of Courier

Courier

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
  • Courier is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Courier synonyms

Meaning messenger:

messenger

Meaning a messenger, collector, or agent for a bank, bookmaker, or similar:

runner

Meaning a person or thing that carries or holds something:

bearer

Meaning a person or thing that transports or communicates something:

conveyor

Meaning a messenger or representative, especially one on a diplomatic mission:

envoy

Meaning a person sent as a diplomatic representative on a special mission:

emissary

Meaning a person or thing that announces or signals the approach of another:

harbinger

Meaning an official employed to oversee state ceremonial, precedence, and the use of armorial bearings, and (historically) to make proclamations, carry official messages, and oversee tournaments:

herald

Meaning an officer of the College of Arms ranking below a herald. The four ordinary pursuivants are Rouge Croix, Bluemantle, Rouge Dragon, and Portcullis:

pursuivant

Meaning a person or thing that precedes the coming or development of someone or something else:

forerunner

Meaning a member of the clergy, especially a cardinal, representing the Pope:

legate

Meaning a mounted courier:

estafette

Meaning a person chosen or appointed to act or speak for another or others:

representative

Meaning a person who shows the way to others, especially one employed to show tourists around places of interest:

guide

Meaning an interpreter or guide, especially in countries speaking Arabic, Turkish, or Persian:

dragoman

Words that rhyme with Courier

rier, Darier, blearier, charier, drearier, flarier, glarier, harier, hoarier, learier, oarier, ordinarier, roarier, scarier, skearier, smearier, snarier, spearier, squarier, sugarier, tearier, unwarier, varier, warier, wearier, Brier, Chabrier, Greenbrier, brier, bullbrier, catbrier, greenbrier, horsebrier, imbrier, shambrier, sweetbrier, crier, decrier, descrier, outcrier, sucrier, undercrier, drier, hairdrier, madrier, tawdrier, aerier, beerier, blisterier, blusterier

Are you looking more rhymes for Courier? Try our rhymes search engine.