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BEARER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone whose employment involves carrying something
Example:
the bonds were transmitted by carrier
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("bearer" is a kind of...):
traveler; traveller (a person who changes location)
Derivation:
bear (move while holding up or supporting)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The person who is in possession of a check or note or bond or document of title that is endorsed to him or to whoever holds it
Example:
the bond was marked 'payable to bearer'
Synonyms:
bearer; holder
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("bearer" is a kind of...):
capitalist (a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business))
Derivation:
bear (have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A messenger who bears or presents
Example:
a bearer of good tidings
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("bearer" is a kind of...):
courier; messenger (a person who carries a message)
Derivation:
bear (move while holding up or supporting)
Sense 4
Meaning:
One of the mourners carrying the coffin at a funeral
Synonyms:
bearer; pallbearer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("bearer" is a kind of...):
griever; lamenter; mourner; sorrower (a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died))
Derivation:
bear (move while holding up or supporting)
Context examples:
Aye, aye, sir! answered two or three; and a rush was made upon the Admiral Benbow, the lantern-bearer following; and then I could see them pause, and hear speeches passed in a lower key, as if they were surprised to find the door open.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
They were evidently talking of me, for every now and then they looked at me, and some of the people who were sitting on the bench outside the door—which they call by a name meaning word-bearer—came and listened, and then looked at me, most of them pityingly.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
“Small! Clams and scallops! Ask me to your table to partake of the dainty of the town, and when I come a barren welcome and a bare board! Where is my spear-bearer?”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
If you are not dating and not about to marry anyone, then it could be a business associate that you work with one-on-one that is the bearer of good news.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
From the first moment of her dark eyes resting on me, I saw she knew I was the bearer of evil tidings.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
On the strength of this, the general, soon after Eleanor's marriage, permitted his son to return to Northanger, and thence made him the bearer of his consent, very courteously worded in a page full of empty professions to Mr. Morland.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Mr. Perry had been to Mrs. Goddard's to attend a sick child, and Miss Nash had seen him, and he had told Miss Nash, that as he was coming back yesterday from Clayton Park, he had met Mr. Elton, and found to his great surprize, that Mr. Elton was actually on his road to London, and not meaning to return till the morrow, though it was the whist-club night, which he had been never known to miss before; and Mr. Perry had remonstrated with him about it, and told him how shabby it was in him, their best player, to absent himself, and tried very much to persuade him to put off his journey only one day; but it would not do; Mr. Elton had been determined to go on, and had said in a very particular way indeed, that he was going on business which he would not put off for any inducement in the world; and something about a very enviable commission, and being the bearer of something exceedingly precious.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Then the father started, trembling with fear and horror, and saw what it was that he had bound himself to do; but as no gold was come, he made himself easy by thinking that it was only a joke that the dwarf was playing him, and that, at any rate, when the money came, he should see the bearer, and would not take it in.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
There was lay-sister Agatha with the high gold crucifix, and the three incense-bearers, and the two-and-twenty garbed in white, who cast flowers upon either side of them and sang sweetly the while.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
From this document, I learned that Mr. Micawber being again arrested, “Was in a final paroxysm of despair; and that he begged me to send him his knife and pint pot, by bearer, as they might prove serviceable during the brief remainder of his existence, in jail. He also requested, as a last act of friendship, that I would see his family to the Parish Workhouse, and forget that such a Being ever lived.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
