different between courier vs courser

English

Etymology

From Middle English corour, currour, from Old French coreor, agent noun of corir (“to run”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??.??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k??.i.?/, /?k?.i.?/
• Rhymes: -??i?(?)

Noun

courier (plural couriers)

1. a person who looks after and guides tourists
   • 1914, G. K. Chesterton, "The Paradise of Thieves", in The Wisdom of Father Brown, p. 29:

     "A courier!" cried Muscari, laughing. "Is that the last of your list of trades? And whom are you conducting?"

   Synonyms: guide, rep, tourist guide

2. a person who delivers messages

   Synonym: messenger

3. a company that delivers messages
4. a company that transports goods
5. (Internet) a user who earns access to a topsite by uploading warez
   • 1999, "Adrian Dunn", Re: Using a scanned picture in your demo (on newsgroup comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos)

     You can always find musicians. There are more trackers than coders, pixelers, organizers, couriers, and designers combined.

   • 2005, Paul Craig, Ron Honick, Mark Burnett, Software Piracy Exposed (page 2)

     These sites have enormous hard drives and bandwidth for couriers to distribute the software from one site to the next.

Translations

Verb

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

1. To deliver by courier.

   We'll have the contract couriered to you.

Anagrams

• Ricœur

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ku?je?/, [?ku.?je?]

Noun

courier m or f (plural couriers)

1. courier

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Middle English courser, borrowed from Anglo-Norman cursier, corser (French: coursier), from Old French curs (“course”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??s?/
• Homophones: curser, cursor

Noun

courser (plural coursers)

1. A dog used for coursing.
2. A person who practises coursing.
3. A hunter.
4. A stone used in building a course.
5. A racehorse or a charger.
6. Any of several species of bird in the genus Cursorius of the family Glareolidae.

Derived terms

• bronze-winged courser, Rhinoptilus chalcopterus
• Burchell's courser, Cursorius rufus
• cream-coloured courser, Cursorius cursor
• double-banded courser, Rhinoptilus africanus
• Indian courser, Cursorius coromandelicus
• Jerdon's courser, Rhinoptilus bitorquatus
• Somali courser, Cursorius somalensis
• Temminck's courser, Cursorius temminckii
• three-banded courser, Rhinoptilus cinctus

Translations

References

• OED 2nd edition 1989

Anagrams

• Correus, correus, scourer, sourcer

French

Etymology

From course.

Verb

courser

1. (colloquial) to purchase

Conjugation

Further reading

• “courser” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• recours