courier
/ˈkʊɹ.i.ɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.68 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A company that transports goods.
noun
A person who looks after and guides tourists.
Example Sentences
- "You can always find musicians. There are more trackers than coders, pixelers, organizers, couriers, and designers combined."
- "These sites have enormous hard drives and bandwidth for couriers to distribute the software from one site to the next."
- ""A courier!" cried Muscari, laughing. "Is that the last of your list of trades? And whom are you conducting?""
- "We'll have the contract couriered to you."
- "Workcest is a huge no no, things will never go back to their easy ways and all of a sudden your report that’s meant to be couriered to Belfast is taking snail mail… through Thailand."
Etymology
From a convergence of Middle English corour, currour, from Old French coreor, agent noun of corir (“to run”), and Middle English courier, a borrowing of Middle French courrier, from Italian corriere.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *ḱers-, corour, coreor, courier, courrier, corriere
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkʊɹ.i.ɚ/
- British English: /ˈkʊ.ɹi.ə/