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# messenger

«messenger» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person who carries a message, letter or parcel from one…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a messenger, messengers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person who carries a message, letter or parcel from one person or place to another. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/messenger/#m1)

2) An app or service for sending text messages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/messenger/#m2)

3) (science) A substance in the body that carries signals, such as a hormone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/messenger/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In history and stories, messengers ran or rode horses to carry news. In everyday life people send messages on «Messenger» apps. Saying: «Don't shoot the messenger» means don't blame the person who brings bad news. Phrases: send a messenger, bike messenger, messenger bag.

### examples

- The king sent a messenger with a letter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/messenger/#x1)
- The messenger rode through the night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/messenger/#x2)
- Don't shoot the messenger — I'm only telling you what Mum said! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/messenger/#x3)
- A bike messenger delivered the parcel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/messenger/#x4)
- I sent Gran a photo on the messenger app. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/messenger/#x5)
- Hormones are chemical messengers in the body. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/messenger/#x6)
- The teacher made me the messenger to the office. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/messenger/#x7)
- Pigeons were once used as messengers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/messenger/#x8)
- This is a messenger from Heaven. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/messenger/#x9)

### note

Countable: messengers. Note the «n» before «-ger»: messeNGer, not «messager». Related: message, message (verb, informal: «message me»).

### In the corpora

- [When fighting an infection the immune system releases chemical messengers, called cytokines, that make you sleepy so the body can save energy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/31-why-we-sleep-when-ill/4/)
- [The aches all over in flu come mostly from the immune system's chemical messengers, not from the virus attacking the muscles.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/31-why-we-sleep-when-ill/8/)
- [Abraham welcomed three travellers with food and rest; they turned out to be messengers of God.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/4-abraham-isaac-and-jacob/10/)
- [Prophets were messengers who spoke God's word: they warned kings and people about injustice and gave hope in hard times.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets/0/)
- [Prophets were messengers who spoke God's word, warned against injustice and gave hope.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/10-daniel-jonah-and-the-prophets/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «messenger» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/messenger/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.