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Bearer   /bˈɛrər/   Listen
Bearer

noun
1.
Someone whose employment involves carrying something.  Synonyms: carrier, toter.
2.
A messenger who bears or presents.
3.
One of the mourners carrying the coffin at a funeral.  Synonym: pallbearer.
4.
The person who is in possession of a check or note or bond or document of title that is endorsed to him or to whoever holds it.  Synonym: holder.



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"Bearer" Quotes from Famous Books



... have had for him a savour of quaint distinction. The suggestion of a rag would never have struck him. For it is a fact that whatever thing may be connoted or suggested by a name is utterly overshadowed by the name's bearer (unless, as in the case of poor 'Ragg,' there is seen to be some connexion between the bearer and the thing implied by the name). Roughly, it may be said that all names connote their ...
— Yet Again • Max Beerbohm
... January the 28th, 1799, His Majesty's frigate Proserpine, 28 guns, commanded by Captain James Wallis, sailed from Yarmouth to Cuxhaven. She had on board the Hon. Thomas Grenville, who was the bearer of important despatches for the Court of Berlin. On Wednesday, the 30th, the ship was off Heligoland, and there took in a pilot for the Elbe. The day being fine, with a fair wind from the N.N.E., the Proserpine's ...
— Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy; between 1793 and 1849 • William O. S. Gilly
... put him to death. The reason was that Proetus was jealous of him, suspecting that his wife Antea looked with too much admiration on the young warrior. From this instance of Bellerophon being unconsciously the bearer of his own death warrant, the expression "Bellerophontic letters" arose, to describe any species of communication which a person is made the bearer of, ...
— Bulfinch's Mythology • Thomas Bulfinch
... sorry, sir," said the latter, "to be the bearer of annoyances. You know that we at this season are liable to inundations, and we have just learned that the torrent that crosses the road at Vagney is rising rapidly, and makes it ...
— The Son of Monte Cristo • Jules Lermina
... one to another, of their limitations, and of their promises. He not only popularizes and explains for the benefit of a larger public the substance and significance of admirable special performance, but he should in a sense become the standard bearer of the ...
— The Promise Of American Life • Herbert David Croly


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