Messenger vs. Envoy

Messengernoun

One who brings messages.

Messengernoun

(nautical) A light line with which a heavier line may be hauled e.g. from the deck of a ship to the pier.

Messengernoun

The supporting member of an aerial cable (electric power or telephone or data).

Messengernoun

(legal) 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.

Messengernoun

(computing) An instant messenger program.

Messengernoun

A forerunner.

Messengernoun

A light scudding cloud preceding a storm.

Messengernoun

A piece of paper, etc., blown up a string to a kite.

Messengernoun

(oceanography) A weight dropped down a line to close a Nansen bottle.

Messengernoun

The secretary bird.

Messengernoun

(Scotland) A messenger-at-arms.

Messengerverb

(transitive) To send something by messenger.

Messengernoun

One who bears a message; the bearer of a verbal or written communication, notice, or invitation, from one person to another, or to a public body; specifically, an office servant who bears messages.

Messengernoun

One who, or that which, foreshows, or foretells.

Messengernoun

A hawser passed round the capstan, and having its two ends lashed together to form an endless rope or chain; - formerly used for heaving in the cable.

Messengernoun

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.

Messengernoun

a person who carries a message

Envoynoun

(law) a diplomatic agent of the second rank, next in status after an ambassador.

Envoynoun

a representative.

Envoynoun

a diplomat.

Envoynoun

a messenger.

Envoynoun

a short stanza at the end of a poem.

Envoynoun

One dispatched upon an errand or mission; a messenger; esp., a person deputed by a sovereign or a government to negotiate a treaty, or transact other business, with a foreign sovereign or government; a minister accredited to a foreign government. An envoy's rank is below that of an ambassador.

Envoynoun

An explanatory or commendatory postscript to a poem, essay, or book; - also in the French from, l'envoi.

Envoynoun

a diplomat having less authority than an ambassador

Envoynoun

someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else

Envoynoun

a brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry