different between courier vs postman

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

Etymology

post +? -man

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p??sm?n/, /?p??stm?n/

Noun

postman (plural postmen)

1. (chiefly Britain) someone (implied male) who delivers the post (mail) to, and/or collects the post from, residential or commercial addresses, or from public mailboxes.
2. One of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of Exchequer, who have precedence in motions, so called from the place where he sits, the other of the two being the tubman.
   • 1835, James Whishaw, A Synopsis of the Members of the English Bar

     Postman of the Court of Exchequer.

Synonyms

• (one who delivers the post): mailman

Antonyms

• mailwoman, mail lady, postwoman, post lady

Hypernyms

• (one who delivers the post): mail carrier, letter carrier, postal carrier, mailperson, postperson

Translations

Anagrams

• tampons, topsman