--- title: C — The English dictionary with trees and pragmatics · page 81 description: The 1959 words of the English dictionary under C, every meaning for a pupil and every example with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/page/81/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/) / [English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/) / C # C — The English dictionary · page 81 [A](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/A/) · [B](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/B/) · [C](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/) · [D](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/) · 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*Everyday, meaning 1:* A weight that balances another weight.[↗](../../counterbalance/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Something that has an equal and opposite effect to something else.[↗](../../counterbalance/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To balance something by putting weight or force on the other side.[↗](../../counterbalance/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* To make up for something by having an opposite effect.[↗](../../counterbalance/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The crane uses a heavy counterbalance.[↗](../../counterbalance/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · On the see-saw, Dad's weight counterbalanced both of us.[↗](../../counterbalance/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The lift has a counterbalance to make it easier to move.[↗](../../counterbalance/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Good food counterbalanced the long walk.[↗](../../counterbalance/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · His calm counterbalances her excitement.[↗](../../counterbalance/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Add weight to the other end to counterbalance the load.[↗](../../counterbalance/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **counterexample** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (maths, logic) A counterexample is one example that shows a general statement is false.[↗](../../counterexample/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* 2 is a counterexample to the claim that all primes are odd.[↗](../../counterexample/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Can you find a counterexample to Every square is a rectangle?[↗](../../counterexample/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") (There is none.)[↗](../../counterexample/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · One counterexample shows the rule is false.[↗](../../counterexample/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · A penguin is a counterexample to All birds can fly.[↗](../../counterexample/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · She found a counterexample and won the argument.[↗](../../counterexample/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Find a counterexample: All numbers ending in 9 are prime.[↗](../../counterexample/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") (Answer: 9 itself.)[↗](../../counterexample/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **counterfeit** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Made to look exactly like something real in order to trick people; fake, like counterfeit money.[↗](../../counterfeit/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (noun) A fake copy.[↗](../../counterfeit/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (verb) To make fake money or goods illegally.[↗](../../counterfeit/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* To counterfeit can also mean to pretend to be someone by copying their voice or looks.[↗](../../counterfeit/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The shop checks for counterfeit £20 notes.[↗](../../counterfeit/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Counterfeit toys may not be safety tested.[↗](../../counterfeit/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Making counterfeit money is a serious crime.[↗](../../counterfeit/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The watermark showed the note was counterfeit.[↗](../../counterfeit/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Police seized thousands of counterfeit watches.[↗](../../counterfeit/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The forger counterfeited old coins.[↗](../../counterfeit/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · “Your grandchild, Little Red Riding-Hood,” replied the Wolf, counterfeiting her voice; “who has brought you a custard and a little pot of butter sent you by mamma.”[↗](../../counterfeit/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **counterpane** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A counterpane is a decorated cover laid over a bed, on top of the sheets and blankets.[↗](../../counterpane/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The beds were covered with white counterpanes.[↗](../../counterpane/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A rose-leaf made a counterpane for the little bed.[↗](../../counterpane/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The velvet counterpane was warm and green.[↗](../../counterpane/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **counterpart** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A counterpart is a person or thing that has the same job or place as another, but in a different group, country or situation.[↗](../../counterpart/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The British Prime Minister met her Canadian counterpart.[↗](../../counterpart/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Our class captain chatted with her counterpart from the visiting school.[↗](../../counterpart/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The bird's wing is the counterpart of the human arm.[↗](../../counterpart/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The e-book is the digital counterpart of the paper book.[↗](../../counterpart/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The US president spoke with his counterpart in Japan.[↗](../../counterpart/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Our school's head teacher wrote to her counterpart in Australia.[↗](../../counterpart/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · As Ilya is the counterpart of Thor, so does Nicholas in some respects resemble Odin.[↗](../../counterpart/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **counterweight** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A counterweight is a heavy weight used to balance another weight, so that something heavy is easier to lift or does not tip over.[↗](../../counterweight/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Figuratively, a counterweight is anything that balances something else, such as one idea balancing another.[↗](../../counterweight/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The crane has a huge counterweight to stop it tipping.[↗](../../counterweight/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A lift uses a counterweight so the motor does less work.[↗](../../counterweight/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The trebuchet's counterweight dropped and the arm flung the stone.[↗](../../counterweight/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · On a seesaw, a heavier child can be a counterweight to two smaller ones.[↗](../../counterweight/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · We used a bag of marbles as a counterweight in our lever experiment.[↗](../../counterweight/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Grandad's calm voice was a counterweight to all the shouting.[↗](../../counterweight/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **countess** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A countess is a noble lady, the wife of a count, or a woman who holds the rank of count.[↗](../../countess/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The countess lived in the big house on the hill.[↗](../../countess/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · 'What will the Countess say?' asked the maid.[↗](../../countess/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The countess was kind to the poor mother.[↗](../../countess/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **counting** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* The act of numbering or reckoning things.[↗](../../counting/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The word sefirot by itself is the plural action noun of סָפַר safar 'to count', thus meaning literally 'countings'.[↗](../../counting/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)[↗](../../counting/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") **countless** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Countless means so many that they cannot be counted, or very, very many.[↗](../../countless/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* There are countless stars in the night sky.[↗](../../countless/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · I have told you countless times to tidy your room.[↗](../../countless/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Countless people came to see the parade.[↗](../../countless/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The beach has countless grains of sand.[↗](../../countless/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · She read countless books in the holidays.[↗](../../countless/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Countless birds fly south for the winter.[↗](../../countless/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Round her came swarming countless devils, the izba was full of them\![↗](../../countless/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **country** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A land with its own government, borders and people.[↗](../../country/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *e.g.* "Canada is a big country."[↗](../../country/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* "The country" means the countryside — areas with farms and fields, outside towns.[↗](../../country/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* The people of a nation.[↗](../../country/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *e.g.* "The whole country watched."[↗](../../country/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* Country music, a kind of music from the southern USA.[↗](../../country/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Canada is the second-biggest country in the world.[↗](../../country/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Ireland is a country in Europe.[↗](../../country/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · We live in the country, near a farm.[↗](../../country/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Which country were you born in?[↗](../../country/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Each country has its own flag.[↗](../../country/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The whole country cheered for the team.[↗](../../country/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · New Zealand is a country of two main islands.[↗](../../country/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Grandpa likes country music.[↗](../../country/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · 'The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the country.[↗](../../country/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.42.30, JPS 1917)[↗](../../country/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy corn; because the famine was sore in all the earth.[↗](../../country/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.41.57, JPS 1917)[↗](../../country/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son, even for Isaac.'[↗](../../country/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.24.4, JPS 1917)[↗](../../country/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · And in the hill-country: Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh; (Prophets JOS.15.48, JPS 1917)[↗](../../country/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · Now there was a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.[↗](../../country/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JDG.17.1, JPS 1917)[↗](../../country/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · And these are their names: The son of Hur, in the hill-country of Ephraim; (Prophets 1KI.4.8, JPS 1917)[↗](../../country/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") **countryman** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A countryman is a man who lives in the country, on a farm or in a village; he is often plain and hard-working.[↗](../../countryman/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") (Also a man from one's own country.).[↗](../../countryman/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The countryman walked home with his cart.[↗](../../countryman/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A countryman saw the fight from the hedge.[↗](../../countryman/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The prince asked the aged countryman the way.[↗](../../countryman/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **countryside** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* The countryside is land outside towns and cities, with fields, farms, woods, hills and small villages.[↗](../../countryside/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We went for a long walk in the countryside.[↗](../../countryside/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · My grandparents live in the countryside near a farm.[↗](../../countryside/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The countryside is quieter than the city.[↗](../../countryside/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Always close farm gates when you walk in the countryside.[↗](../../countryside/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · From the hill we could see miles of green countryside.[↗](../../countryside/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Take your litter home to keep the countryside clean.[↗](../../countryside/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · There are fewer buses in the countryside.[↗](../../countryside/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **county** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A county is a part of a state or country with its own name, towns and local government.[↗](../../county/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The county fair has 30 rides.[↗](../../county/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · 5,000 people live in the county.[↗](../../county/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · There are 12 schools in the county.[↗](../../county/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · They drove 40 miles across the county.[↗](../../county/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Ireland has 32 counties.[↗](../../county/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · We went to the county fair.[↗](../../county/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The county library has a big children's section.[↗](../../county/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · There was once a boy in the County Mayo; Guleesh was his name.[↗](../../county/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **coup** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A sudden, often violent, illegal taking of power in a country, usually by the army; also called a coup d'état.[↗](../../coup/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A clever, successful action that wins something hard to get.[↗](../../coup/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The army took power in a coup.[↗](../../coup/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The coup failed, and the president stayed in power.[↗](../../coup/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Getting the famous author to visit our school was a real coup.[↗](../../coup/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · After the coup, there were protests in the streets.[↗](../../coup/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · A coup d'état is French for "a blow against the state".[↗](../../coup/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") **couple** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A couple is 2 people who are together, like a married pair.[↗](../../couple/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A couple of things means two of them.[↗](../../couple/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* In everyday talk, «a couple of» can mean a few.[↗](../../couple/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* To couple is to join two things, like train cars.[↗](../../couple/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* A couple bought 2 tickets each.[↗](../../couple/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · There are 8 couples at the dance, so 16 people.[↗](../../couple/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · She ate a couple of cookies.[↗](../../couple/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Each couple brought a dish.[↗](../../couple/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · I'll be ready in a couple of minutes.[↗](../../couple/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · An old couple lives next door.[↗](../../couple/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The couple danced together.[↗](../../couple/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The train cars are coupled together.[↗](../../couple/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · The couple had one boy called Jem.[↗](../../couple/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.[↗](../../couple/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.36.16, JPS 1917)[↗](../../couple/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · And he made fifty clasps of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be one.[↗](../../couple/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.36.18, JPS 1917)[↗](../../couple/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · And he coupled five curtains one to another; and the other five curtains he coupled one to another.[↗](../../couple/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.36.10, JPS 1917)[↗](../../couple/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · But the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and departed, and came over against Jebus — the same is Jerusalem; and there were with him a couple of asses saddled; his concubine also was with him.[↗](../../couple/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets JDG.19.10, JPS 1917)[↗](../../couple/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") **couplet** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A couplet is a pair of lines of poetry that go together, usually rhyming and with the same rhythm.[↗](../../couplet/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (rare) A couplet can mean a pair of anything.[↗](../../couplet/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* «Twinkle, twinkle, little star, / How I wonder what you are» is a couplet.[↗](../../couplet/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Write a rhyming couplet about your pet.[↗](../../couplet/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The poem is made of six couplets.[↗](../../couplet/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · A sonnet by Shakespeare ends with a couplet.[↗](../../couplet/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The last couplet made everyone laugh.[↗](../../couplet/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Can you find the couplet that does not rhyme?[↗](../../couplet/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · My birthday card had a funny couplet inside.[↗](../../couplet/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **coupling** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* a part that joins things together.[↗](../../coupling/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the couplings; and brass in abundance without weight; (Writings 1CH.22.3, JPS 1917)[↗](../../coupling/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · even to the carpenters and to the builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to make beams for the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.[↗](../../coupling/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings 2CH.34.11, JPS 1917)[↗](../../coupling/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") **coupon** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A piece of paper or a code that lets you get money off or something free when you buy.[↗](../../coupon/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A form cut from a newspaper or magazine to order or enter something.[↗](../../coupon/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Use this coupon to get 10% off.[↗](../../coupon/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Mum cut coupons from the newspaper.[↗](../../coupon/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The coupon gives a free drink with every burger.[↗](../../coupon/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The coupon code didn't work.[↗](../../coupon/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · With the coupon, the 20-dollar toy cost 15 dollars.[↗](../../coupon/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Be careful of coupons that ask for your password.[↗](../../coupon/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **courage** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Courage is the ability to do something that frightens you or is difficult, even when you feel afraid: bravery.[↗](../../courage/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* «The courage of your convictions» means being brave enough to do what you believe is right.[↗](../../courage/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* It took courage to tell the teacher the truth.[↗](../../courage/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · She plucked up the courage to jump off the diving board.[↗](../../courage/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The firefighter was praised for his courage.[↗](../../courage/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Courage is not having no fear — it's doing the right thing anyway.[↗](../../courage/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The cowardly lion went to find courage from the Wizard of Oz.[↗](../../courage/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Standing up for a friend takes courage.[↗](../../courage/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Well, have you lost your courage?[↗](../../courage/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land.' — Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes. — (Torah NUM.13.20, JPS 1917)[↗](../../courage/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Be strong and of good courage, fear not, nor be affrighted at them; for the LORD thy God, He it is that doth go with thee; He will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.'[↗](../../courage/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.31.6, JPS 1917)[↗](../../courage/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said: 'Be strong and of good courage; for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore unto them; and I will be with thee.'[↗](../../courage/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah DEU.31.23, JPS 1917)[↗](../../courage/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all ye that wait for the LORD.[↗](../../courage/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.31.25, JPS 1917)[↗](../../courage/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his brother: 'Be of good courage.'[↗](../../courage/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets ISA.41.6, JPS 1917)[↗](../../courage/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · Wait on the LORD; be strong, and let thy heart take courage; yea, wait thou for the LORD.[↗](../../courage/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.27.14, JPS 1917)[↗](../../courage/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") **courageous** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Courageous means brave: willing to do something frightening, difficult or dangerous because it is right.[↗](../../courageous/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The courageous firefighter ran into the burning house.[↗](../../courageous/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · It was courageous of Lily to tell the truth.[↗](../../courageous/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Standing up for the new girl was a courageous thing to do.[↗](../../courageous/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The courageous little dog barked at the bear.[↗](../../courageous/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · She made a courageous decision to try again after falling off her bike.[↗](../../courageous/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Being courageous doesn't mean you aren't scared.[↗](../../courageous/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Good fortune gives courage, and Rudy was always courageous.[↗](../../courageous/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD.[↗](../../courageous/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets AMO.2.16, JPS 1917)[↗](../../courageous/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Therefore be ye very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left; (Prophets JOS.23.6, JPS 1917)[↗](../../courageous/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And Absalom commanded his servants, saying: 'Mark ye now, when Amnon's heart is merry with wine; and when I say unto you: Smite Amnon, then kill him, fear not; have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant.'[↗](../../courageous/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 2SA.13.28, JPS 1917)[↗](../../courageous/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") **courageously** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* In a brave way, without giving in to fear.[↗](../../courageously/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Deal courageously, and the LORD be with the good.'[↗](../../courageously/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings 2CH.19.11, JPS 1917)[↗](../../courageously/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") **courier** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A courier is a person or company that delivers parcels, letters or documents quickly to people's homes or businesses.[↗](../../courier/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A courier is also someone who looks after a group of tourists on a trip.[↗](../../courier/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To courier something means to send it by courier.[↗](../../courier/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The courier left the parcel on our doorstep.[↗](../../courier/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The documents were sent by courier.[↗](../../courier/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · A bike courier raced through the city traffic.[↗](../../courier/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Mum got a text saying the courier would come at noon.[↗](../../courier/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The courier asked me to sign for the package.[↗](../../courier/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Beware of fake messages from couriers asking for money.[↗](../../courier/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · They couriered the tickets to our house.[↗](../../courier/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Then came a courier bearing the congratulations of the King and Queen, who had just heard of his successful return, and there was even a graceful compliment from Sabella herself.[↗](../../courier/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/) … 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