different between courtier vs courier

English

Etymology

From Middle English courteour, from Anglo-Norman corteour, Old French cortoiier, from cort (“court”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k??ti?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??t??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?ko(?)?ti?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?ko?t??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)ti?(?)

Noun

courtier (plural courtiers)

1. A person in attendance at a royal court.
   • c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act V, Scene 1,^[1]

     By the Lord, Horatio, this three years I have taken note of it, the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier he galls his kibe.

2. A person who flatters in order to seek favour.
   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 12,

     People shouted cheerfully and flinched, but the Prime Minister didn't flinch, she fortified her voice with a firm diapason as if rising to the challenge of a rowdy Chamber. Around her her courtiers started like pheasants.

3. (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the Asian genus Sephisa.

Related terms

• court
• courtesan

Translations

Anagrams

• outcrier

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku?.tje/

Noun

courtier m (plural courtiers, feminine courtière)

1. broker; stockbroker

Further reading

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

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