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courier - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

Noun

courier (plural couriers)

• A person who delivers messages.
  • ✤ Synonym: messenger
• A company that delivers messages.
• A company that transports goods.
• (Internet) A user who earns access to a topsite by uploading warez.
  • ✤ You can always find musicians. There are more trackers than coders, pixelers, organizers, couriers, and designers combined.¹
  • ✤ These sites have enormous hard drives and bandwidth for couriers to distribute the software from one site to the next.²
• A person who looks after and guides tourists.
  • ✤ Synonyms: guide, rep, tourist guide
  • ✤ “A courier!” cried Muscari, laughing. “Is that the last of your list of trades? And whom are you conducting?”³

Verb

courier (third-person singular simple present couriers, present participle couriering, simple past and past participle couriered)

• (transitive) To deliver by courier.
  • ✤ We’ll have the contract couriered to you.
  • ✤ Workcest is a huge no no, things will never go back to their easy ways and all of a sudden your report that’s meant to be couriered to Belfast is taking snail mail… through Thailand.⁴

Etymology

From a convergence of Middle English corour, currour, from Old French coreor, agent noun of corir (“to run”), and Middle English courier, a borrowing of Middle French courrier, from Italian corriere.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkʊ.ɹi.ə/
  • Audio (Southern England): 🔊
• (General American) IPA: /ˈkʊɹ.i.ɚ/, /ˈkɝ.i.ɚ/
  • Audio (US): 🔊
• (Scotland) IPA: /ˈkʉː.ɹi.əɹ/
• Rhymes: -ʊɹiə(ɹ)
• Homophone: currier (without the foot-strut split or with the hurry–furry merger)

Printed 2026-06-28.

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Footnotes

1. 1999, Adrian Dunn, “Re: Using a scanned picture in your demo”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet): ↩

2. 2005, Paul Craig, Ron Honick, Mark Burnett, Software Piracy Exposed, page 2: ↩

3. 1914, G. K. Chesterton, “The Paradise of Thieves”, in The Wisdom of Father Brown, p. 29: ↩

4. 2013 December 13, CollegeTimes Staff, “How Not To Destroy Your Reputation At The Office Work Party”, in CollegeTimes.com ‎${}^{[1]}$: ↩

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