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English

Etymology

From face +? book.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?f?s'bo?ok, IPA^(key): /?fe?s?b?k/

Noun

facebook (plural facebooks)

1. A reference book or electronic directory made up of individuals’ photographs and names.
2. A college publication distributed at the start of the academic year by university administrations with the intention of helping students get to know each other better.

   The shipment of facebooks will be distributed to the freshmen during orientation and move-in-week.

Synonyms

• (a book containing pictures of faces): mug book

Derived terms

• Facebook

Translations

See also

• yearbook (traditionally published at the end of the academic year)

Verb

facebook (third-person singular simple present facebooks, present participle facebooking, simple past and past participle facebooked)

1. Alternative form of Facebook

Related terms

• facebooker

English

Etymology

From Middle English messengere, messingere, messangere, from Old French messanger, a variant of Old French messagier (French messager), equivalent to message +? -er. Doublet of messager.Displaced native English boda (“messenger, envoy”) and English ærendwreca (“messenger, ambassador”).

For the replacement of -ager with -enger, -inger, -anger, compare passenger, harbinger, scavenger, porringer. This development may have been merely the addition of n, or it may have resulted due to contamination from other suffixes such as Middle English -ing and the rare Old French -ange, -enc, -inge, -inghe (“-ing”) for Old French -age (“-age”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?s.n?.d???/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?s.n?.d???/
• Hyphenation: mes?sen?ger

Noun

messenger (plural messengers)

1. One who brings messages.
2. (nautical) A light line with which a heavier line may be hauled e.g. from the deck of a ship to the pier.
3. The supporting member of an aerial cable (electric power or telephone or data).
4. (law) A person appointed to perform certain ministerial duties under bankrupt and insolvent laws, such as to take charge of the estate of the bankrupt or insolvent.

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5. (computing) An instant messenger program.
6. A forerunner.
7. A light scudding cloud preceding a storm.
8. A piece of paper, etc., blown up a string to a kite.
9. (oceanography) A weight dropped down a line to close a Nansen bottle.
10. The secretary bird.
11. (Scotland) A messenger-at-arms.

Derived terms

• instant messenger
• raven-messenger

Translations

Verb

messenger (third-person singular simple present messengers, present participle messengering, simple past and past participle messengered)

1. (transitive) To send something by messenger.

   I'll messenger over the signed documents.